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any student to note down his explanations of logic. Sirvabhauma Bhattacarya was
so talented, however, that he learned the explanations by heart, and when he later
returned to Navadvipa he established a school for the study of logic, thus diminishing
the importance of Mithila. Students from various parts of India still come to
Navadvipa to study logic. According to some authoritative opinions, the celebrated
logician Raghunatha Siromani was also a student of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. In
effect, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya became the leader of all students of logic. Although
he was a grhastha (householder), he even taught many sannydsis in the knowledge
of logic. He started a school at J agannatha Puri for the study of Vedanta philosophy,
of which he was a great scholar. When Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya met Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu, he advised the Lord to learn Vedanta philosophy from him, but later
he became a student of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu to understand the real meaning
of Vedanta. Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya was so fortunate as to see the six-armed
form of Lord Caitanya known as Sadbhuja. A Sadbhuja Deity is still situated at
one end of the Jagannatha temple. Daily sankirtana performances take place in this
part of the temple. The meeting of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya with Lord Caitanya
Mahaprabhu is vividly described in the Madhya-lila, Chapter Six. Sarvabhauma
Bhattacarya wrote a book named Cajtanya-Sataka. Of the 100 verses of this book,
two verses, beginning with the words vairagya-vidyd-nijabhaktiyoga, are very fa-
mous among Gaudiya Vaisnavas. The Goure-ganoddesa-dipikad (119) states that
Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya was an incarnation of Brhaspati, the learned scholar from
the celestial planets.

Gopinatha Acarya, who belonged to a respectable bradhmana family, was also an
inhabitant of Navadvipa and constant companion of the Lord. He was the husband
of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya’s sister. In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (178) it is
described that he was formerly the gop7 named Ratnavali. According to the opinion
of others, he was an incarnation of Brahma.

TEXT 131
Ta, egrafie, ara Sata |
Tala face Sty Met HAH NSE I
kasi-misra, pradyumna-misra, rdya bhavananda
yanhara milane prabhu pdild dnanda
SYNONYMS

kasi-misra—of the name Kasi Misra; pradyumna-misra—of the name Pradyumna
Misra; rdya bhavadnanda—of the name Bhavananda Raya; yanhara—of whom; milane—
meeting; prabhu— the Lord; pdi/a—got; Gnanda—great pleasure.

TRANSLATION

In the list of devotees at Jagannatha Puri [whieh begins with Paramananda Puri,

Svaripa Damodara, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya and Gopinatha Acarya], Kast Misra
