Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c9.s5.43

c9.s5.43

¹ But Prabodhānanda's alleged pupil Gopāla Bhaṭṭa, as we have seen above, hardly lends any support to such a cult. It is possible that although the ascetic Prabodhānanda was apparently older than Gopāla Bhaṭṭa, his conversion to Caitanyaism may have taken place later when such a cult was widely gaining ground, and his work consequently may be of a later date; or this view may have been his personal belief. But Gopāla Bhaṭṭa's pupilage of this Prabodhānanda lacks proof (see above, p. 129 f).