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Šrī   Саі tanya-саritāmrta
[[Madhya-lilā, Ch. 19]]
se-kāle vallabha-bhaṭṭa rahe āḍāila-grāme mahāprabhu āilā śuni’ āila tāṅra sthāne
SYNONYMS
se-kāle —at that time;  vallabha-bhaṭṭa —Vallabha Bhaṭṭa;  rahe —resided;  āḍāila-grāme —in the village known as Āḍāila;  mahāprabhu —Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu;  āilā —has come;  śuni' —hearing;  āila —came;  tāṅra sthāne —to His place.
TRANSLATION
At that time, Śrī Vallabha Bhaṭṭa was staying at Āḍāila-grāma, and when he heard that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had arrived, he went to His place to see Him.
PURPORT
Vallabha Bhaṭṭa was a great learned scholar of Vaiṣṇavism. In the beginning he was very much devoted to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, but since he thought that he could not receive proper respect from Him, he later joined the Viṣṇusvāmī sect and became ācārya of that sect. His sect is celebrated as the Vallabhācārya-sampradāya. This  sampradāya  has had great influence in Vṛndāvana near Gokula and in Bombay. Vallabha Bhaṭṭa wrote many books, including a commentary on  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  called  Subodhinī-ṭīkā , and notes on the  Vedānta-sūtra , in the form of an  Anubhāṣya . He also wrote a combination of sixteen short works called  Ṣoḍaśa-grantha . Āḍāila-grāma, where he was staying, was near the confluence of the Rivers Ganges and Yamunā on the other side of the Yamunā about one mile from the river. The village there is called Aḍelī-grāma, or Āḍāila-grāma. A temple of Lord Viṣṇu there still belongs to the Vallabha-sampradāya.
Vallabha Bhaṭṭa was originally from a place in southern India called Trailaṅga. There is a railway station there called Niḍāḍābhalu. Sixteen miles from that station is a village called Kāṅkaḍabāḍa, or Kākuṅrapāḍhu. A learned  brāhmaṇa  named Lakṣmaṇa Dīkṣita used to live there, and Vallabha Bhaṭṭa was his son. There are five sections of the  brāhmaṇa  community of Āndhra Pradesh known as  bella-nāṭī ,  vegī-nāṭī ,  muraki-nāṭī ,  telagu-nāṭī  and  kāśala-nāṭī . Out of these five brahminical communities, Vallabhācārya took his birth in the community of  bella-nāṭī  in the year 1400 Śakābda Era. According to some people, Vallabha Bhaṭṭācārya's father took  sannyāsa  before Vallabha's birth, and he returned home to take Vallabhācārya as his son. According to the opinion of others, Vallabhācārya was born in 1400 Śakābda Era on the Ekādaśī day of the dark moon in the month of Caitra, and he took his birth in a  brāhmaṇa  family surnamed Khambharṅpāṭībāru. According to this account, his father's name was Lakṣmaṇa Bhaṭṭa Dīkṣita, and he was born in Campakāraṇya. In someone else's opinion, Vallabhācārya appeared