Text 245] Lord Caitanya’s Travels to the Holy Places 43

killed them all. When his companion Satya Tirtha was attacked by a tiger,
Madhvacarya separated them by virtue of his great strength. When he met
Vydsadeva, he received from him the sdlagrama-sila known as Astamirti. After
this, he summarized the Mahabharata.

Madhvacdrya’s devotion to the Lord and his erudite scholarship are known
throughout India. Because of this, the owners of the Srngeri-matha established by
Sankaracdrya became a little perturbed. At that time the followers of Sankaracarya
were afraid of Madhvacarya’s rising power, and they began to tease
Madhvacarya’s disciples in many ways. There was even an attempt to prove that
the disciplic succession of Madhvacarya was not in line with Vedic principles. One
person named Pundarika Puri, a follower of the Mayavada philosophy of
Sankaracarya, came before MadhvacArya to discuss the sdstras. It is said that all of
Madhvacarya’s books were taken away, but later they were found with the help
of King Jayasirnha, ruler of Kumla. In discussion, Pundarika Puri was defeated by
Madhvacarya. A great personality named Trivikramacarya, who was a resident of
Visnumangala, became Madhvacdarya’s disciple, and his son later became
Narayanacarya, the composer of Sri Madhva-vijaya. After the death of Tri-
vikramacarya, the younger brother of Narayanacarya took sannyasa and later be-
came known as Visnu Tirtha.

At that time it was reputed that there was no limit to the bodily strength of Par-
naprajfia, Madhvacarya. There was a person named Kadafjari who was famed for
possessing the strength of thirty men. Madhvacarya placed the big toe of his foot
upon the ground and asked the man to separate it from the ground, but the great
strong man could not do so even after great effort. Srila Madhvacarya passed from
this material world at the age of eighty while writing a commentary on the
Aitareya Upanisad. For further information about Madhvacdarya, one should read
Madhva-vijaya by Narayana Acarya. The acaryas of the Madhva-sampradaya
established Udupi as the chief center, and the monastery there was known as
Uttararadhi-matha. A list of the different centers of the Madhvacarya-sampradaya
can be found at Udupi, and their matha commanders are (1) Visnu Tirtha (Soda-
matha), (2) Janardana Tirtha (Krsnapura-matha), (3) Vamana Tirtha (Kanura-
matha), (4) Narasirnha Tirtha (Adamara-matha), (5) Upendra Tirtha (Puttugi-
matha), (6) Rama Tirtha (Sirura-matha), (7) Hrsikega Tirtha (Palimara-matha), and
(8) Aksobhya Tirtha (Pejavara-matha). The disciplic succession of the
Madhvacarya-sampradaya is as follows: (1) Harnsa Paramatma; (2) Caturmukha
Brahma; (3) Sanakadi; (4) Durvasa; (5) JAdnanidhi; (6) Garuda-vahana; (7) Kaivalya
Tirtha; (8) JAadnesa Tirtha; (9) Para Tirtha; (10) Satyaprajfia Tirtha; (11) Prdajiia
Tirtha; (12) Acyuta Preksacarya Tirtha; (13) Sri Madhvacarya, 1040 Saka; (14) Pad-
manabha, 1120; Narahari, 1127; Madhava, 1136; and Aksobhya, 1159; (15) Jaya
Tirtha, 1167; (16) Vidyadhiraja, 1190; (17) Kavindra, 1255; (18) Vagisa, 1261;
(19) Ramacandra, 1269; (20) Vidyanidhi, 1298; (21) si Raghunatha, 1366; (22)
