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Madhva and his School
[CH. stanāma-bhāsya, Vedānta-vārttika, Sankara-vijaya, Sarkarācāryaavatāra-kathā, Sataśloka-țīkā, Samhitopanişad-bhāsya, Samhitopanişad-bhāsya-tippani, Şaţtattva, Sadācāra-stuii-stotra, Smrtivivarana, Smrti-sāra-samuccaya, Svarūpa-nirnaya-ţikā, Harimidestotra-ţikā.
Succession List of Madhva Gurus. Bhandarkar in his search for Sanskrit MSS. in 1882–3 gives the names of teachers with the dates of their deaths. Thus Ananda-tīrtha or Madhva was succeeded by Padmanābha-tīrtha 1126 saka, and he by Narahari-tīrtha 1135 saka; Mādhava-tīrtha 1152; Aksobhya-tīrtha 1169; Jaya-tīrtha 1190; Vidyādhirāja-tīrtha 1254; Kavīndra-tīrtha 1261; Vāgīša-tīrtha 1265; Rāmachandra-tīrtha 1298; Vidyānidhi-tīrtha 1306; Raghunātha-tīrtha 1364; Raghuvarya-tīrtha 1419; Raghūttama-tīrtha 1457; Vedavyāsa-tīrtha 1481; Vidyādhīša-tīrtha 1493; Vedanidhi-tīrtha 1497; Satyavrata-tīrtha 1560; Satyanidhi-tīrtha 1582; Satyanātha-tīrtha 1595; Satyābhinava-tīrtha 1628; Satyapūrņa-tīrtha 1648; Satyavijaya-tīrtha 1661; Satyapriya-tīrtha 1666; Satyabodha-tirtha 1705; Satyasannidhāna-tirtha 1716; Satyavara-tīrtha 1719; Satyadhāma-tīrtha 1752; Satyasāra-tīrtha 1763; Satyaparāyana-tirtha 1785; Satyakāma-tirtha 1793; Satyesti-tirtha 1794; Satyaparāyana-tīrtha 1801; Satyavit-tīrtha was living in 1882, when the Search for Sanskrit MSS. was being written. Thus we have a list of thirty-five Gurus, including Madhva, from 1198 saka (the year of the death of Madhva) to Satyavit-tīrtha, who was living in śaka 1804 or A.D. 1882. This list was drawn up in consonance with the two lists procured at Belgaum and Poona. It is largely at variance with the list given in the introduction to the commentary on the Brahma-sūtra by Baladeva. Baladeva gives the list as follows:
Madhva, Padmanābha, Nshari, Madhava, Akşobhya, Jaya-tīrtha, Jñānasimha, Dayānidhi, Vidyānidhi, Rājendra, Jayadharma, Puruşottama-tīrtha, Brahmānda-tīrtha, Vyāsa-tīrtha, Lakşmīpati, Mādhavendra, Iśvara. Isvara was a teacher of Caitanya. We see that the list given by Baladeva is right as far as Jaya-tīrtha; but after Jaya-tīrtha the list given by Baladeva is in total discrepancy with the two lists from the Madhva Mathas in Belgaum and Poona. Under the circumstances we are unable to accept the list of Gurus given by Baladeva, which has many other discrepancies into details whereof we need not enter.
