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Śrī-Caitanya-caritāmṛta
PURPORT
Śrī Anupama was the father of Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī and youngest brother of Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī and Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī. His former name was Vallabha, but after Lord Caitanya met him He gave him the name Anupama. Because of working in the Mohammedan government, these three brothers were given the title Mullik. Our personal family is connected with the Mulliks of Mahātmā Gandhi Road in Calcutta, and we often used to visit their Rādhā-Govinda temple. They belong to the same family as we do. (Our family  gotra , or original genealogical line, is the  gautama-gotra , or line of disciples of Gautama Muni, and our surname is De. But due to their accepting the posts of Zamindars in the Mohammedan government, they received the title Mullik. Similarly, Rūpa, Sanātana and Vallabha were also given the title Mullik. Mullik means “lord.” Just as the English government gives rich and respectable persons the title “lord,” so the Mohammedans give the title Mullik to rich, respectable families that have intimate connections with the government. The title Mullik is found not only among the Hindu aristocracy but also among Mohammedans. This title is not restricted to a particular family but is given to different families and castes. The qualifications for receiving it are wealth and respectability.
Sanātana Gosvāmī and Rūpa Gosvāmī belonged to the  bharadvāja-gotra , which indicates that they belonged either to the family or disciplinary succession of Bharadvāja Muni. As members of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we belong to the family or disciplinary succession of Sarasvatī Gosvāmī, and thus we are known as Sārasvatas. Obeisances are therefore offered to the spiritual master as  sārasvata-deva , or a member of the Sārasvata family ( namas te sārasvate devam ), whose mission is to broadcast the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ( gaura-vāṇi-pracāriṇe ) and to fight with impersonalists and voidists ( nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe ). This was also the occupational duty of Sanātana Gosvāmī, Rūpa Gosvāmī and Anupama Gosvāmī.
The genealogical table of Sanātana Gosvāmī, Rūpa Gosvāmī and Vallabha Gosvāmī can be traced back to the Twelfth Century  śakābda , when a gentleman of the name Sarvajña appeared in a very rich and opulent  brāhmaṇa  family in the province of Karṇāṭa. He had two sons named Aniruddhera Rūpeśvara and Harihara, who were both bereft of their kingdoms and thus obliged to reside in the highlands. The son of Rūpeśvara, who was named Padmanābha, moved to a place in Bengal known as Naihāṭī on the bank of the Ganges. There he had five sons, of whom the youngest, Mukunda, had a well-behaved son named Kumāradeva, who was the father of Rūpa, Sanātana and Vallabha. Kumāradeva lived in Bāklācandradvīpa, which was in the district of Yaśohara and is now known as Phateyābād. Of his many sons, three took to the path of Vaiṣṇavism. Later, Śrī Vallabha and his elder brothers Śrī Rūpa and Sanātana came from Candradvīpa to the village in the Maldah district of Bengal known as Rāmakeli. It is in this village that Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī took birth, accepting Vallabha as his father. Because of engaging in the service of the Mohammedan government, the three brothers received the title Mullik. When Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited the village of Rāmakeli, He met Vallabha there. Later, Śrī Rūpa