276 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 19

se-kale vallabha-bhatta rahe adaila-grame
mahdaprabhu dila suni’ dila tanra sthdne

SYNONYMS

se-kdle—at that time; vallabha-bhatta—Vallabha Bhatta; rahe—resided;
adaila-grame—in the village known as Adaila; mahaprabhu—Sti Caitanya
Mahaprabhu; aila—has come; suni’—hearing; aila—came; tanra sthane—to His
place.

TRANSLATION

At that time, Sri Vallabha Bhatta was staying at Adaila-grama, and when he
heard that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu had arrived, he went to His place to see
Him.

PURPORT

Vallabha Bhatta was a great learned scholar of Vaisnavism. In the beginning he
was very much devoted to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, but since he thought that
he could not receive proper respect from Him, he later joined the Visnusvami sect
and became dcdrya of that sect. His sect is celebrated as the Vallabhacarya-
sampradaya. This sampradaya has had great influence in Vrndavana near Gokula
and in Bombay. Vallabha Bhatta wrote many books, including a commentary on
Srimad-Bhagavatam called Subodhini-tikd, and notes on the Vedanta-sutra, in the
form of an Anubhasya. He also wrote a combination of sixteen short works called
Sodasa-grantha. Adaila-grama, where he was staying, was near the confluence of
the Rivers Ganges and Yamuna on the other side of the Yamuna about one mile
from the river. The village there is called Adeli-grama, or Adaila-grama. A temple
of Lord Visnu there still belongs to the Vallabha-sampradaya.

Vallabha Bhatta was originally from a place in southern India called Trailanga.
There is a railway station there called Nidadabhalu. Sixteen miles from that station
is a village called Kankadabada, or Kakunrapadhu. A learned brahmana named
Laksmana Diksita used to live there, and Vallabha Bhatta was his son. There are
five sections of the brahmana community of Andhra Pradesh known as bella-nati,
vegi-nati, muraki-nati, telagu-nati and kasala-nati. Out of these five brahminical
communities, Vallabhacarya took his birth in the community of bella-ndati in the
year 1400 Sakabda Era. According to some people, Vallabha Bhattacarya’s father
took sannydsa before Vallabha’s birth, and he returned home to take
Vallabhacarya as his son. According to the opinion of others, Vallabhacarya was
born in 1400 Sakabda Era on the Ekadaégi day of the dark moon in the month of
Caitra, and he took his birth in a brahmana family surnamed Khambharnpatibaru.
According to this account, his father’s name was Laksmana Bhatta Diksita, and he
was born in Campakaranya. In someone else's opinion, Vallabhacarya appeared
