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XXI] Teachers and Pupils of the Nimbārka School 401 could secure only the Sva-dharmā-dhva-bodha, which is deposited with the Bengal Asiatic Society. It is difficult to say whether this work was actually written by Nimbārka. In any case it must have been considerably manipulated by some later followers of the Nimbārka school, since it contains several verses interspersed, in which Nimbārka is regarded as an avatāra and salutations are offered to him. He is also spoken of in the third person, and views are expressed as being Nimbārka-matam which could not have come from the pen of Nimbārka. The book contains reference to the Kevala-bheda-vādī which must be a reference to the Madhva school. It is a curious piece of work, containing various topics, partly related and partly unrelated, in a very unmethodical style. It contains references to the various schools of asceticism and religion.
In the Guru-paramparā list found in the Har-iguru-stava-mālā noted in Sir R. G. Bhandarkar's Report of the Search for Sanskrit
Ianuscripts 1882-1883, we find that Hamsa, the unity of Radha and Krsna, is regarded as the first teacher of the Nimbārka school. His pupil was Kumāra of the form of four vyūhas. Kumāra's pupil was Nārada, the teacher of prema-bhakti in the Tretā-yuga. Nimbārka was the pupil of Nārada and the incarnation of the power (sudarśana) of Nārāyaṇa. He is supposed to have introduced the worship of Krsna in Dvāpara-yuga. His pupil was Śrīnivāsa, who is supposed to be the incarnation of the conch-shell of Nārāyaṇa. Srinivāsa's pupil was Viśvācārya, whose pupil was Puruşottama, who in turn had as his pupil Svarupācārya. These are all described as devotees. Svarūpācārya's pupil was Mādhavācārya, who had a pupil Balabhadrācārya, and his pupil was Padmācārya who is said to have been a great controversialist, who travelled over different parts of India defeating people in discussion. Padmācārya's pupil was Syāmācārya, and his pupil was Gopālācārya, who is described as a great scholar of the Vedas and the Vedānta. He had as pupil Krpācārya, who taught Devācārya, who is described as a great controversialist. Devācārya's pupil was Sundara Bhatta, and Sundara Bhatta's pupil was Padmanā Bhācārya. His pupil was Upendra Bhatta; the succession of pupils is in the following order:
of Sanskrit Manuscripts, by R. L. Mitra, Nos. 2826 and 1216, and the Guruparanparā in the Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Private Libraries of the N.W.P., Parts 1-x, Allahabad, 1877-86.
lahabad, 1894€ Manuscripis in gos. 2826 and
