[Advaita-l] Was Madhusudana Saraswati influenced by Gaudiya Vaishnavas?

[Rajaram Venkataramani]

I created a time-line graph on my note-book using firm lines for firm dates
and dotted lines for doubtful. I can scan and send the image over the
week-end but many people on this forum use pure text and do not even like
use of formatting - have started refraining from that.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya <
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Namaste Rajaramji,
>
> It may be better for all of us if you kindly prepare a sort of
> chronology-start from Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to Madhusudana Saraswati
> including all the personalities whose names have appeared in this thread.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil KB
>
> --- On Mon, 6/13/11, Rajaram Venkataramani <rajaramvenk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Rajaram Venkataramani <rajaramvenk at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Was Madhusudana Saraswati influenced by Gaudiya
> Vaishnavas?
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Monday, June 13, 2011, 1:13 PM
>
> Sriram,  Madhusudana was not a contemporary of Sri Narayana Tirtha. He
> lived
> a century before and could not have met the latter - except in dreams.
> Jaladhar, of course, you do not say that the story of Madhusudana waiting
> to
> meet Caitanya is implausible but improbable. I dont want to discuss
> probability as it is hypothetical but evaluate plausibility. Let us say
> Caitanya and Raghunatha Tarkashiromani were class-mates in nyaya school
> from
> around 1480 to 1505. Let us say, Madhuranatha was Raghunatha's student from
> around 1505 to 1530. If Madhusudana went to Naavadvip at the age 10, he
> could have learnt from Madhuranatha from after 1530 to 1540.
>
> He was a contemporary of Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami, Jiva
> Gosvami, Vallabhaharya and other prominent saints of bhakti cults. In none
> of his works, does he criticize their conclusions or quote them. The only
> school that he argues against is the Madhwas. To explain this, one of my
> friends who is doing research in to Madhusudana Saraswati's works says that
> there is a theory that he hails from South India! As a Tamil, I dont mind
> taking credit for Dravida Nadu producing this genius saint but conscience
> asks me to look for data!
>
> One professor said he will send me references to show that Madhusudana's
> scheme of bhakti classification is based on Sridhara Svami's, which in turn
> is based on Srimad Bhagavatham. Assuming he is correct, your position is
> plausible.
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