Part 2 - Succession List of Madhva Gurus

Bhandarkar in his search for Sanskrit MSS. in 1882-3 gives the names of teachers with the dates of their deaths.

Thus Ānanda-tīrtha or Madhva was succeeded by

• Padmanābha-tīrtha 1126 śaka, and he by
• Narahari-tīrtha 1135 śaka;
• Mādhava-tīrtha 1152;
• Akṣobhya-tīrtha 1169;
• Jaya-tīrtha 1190;
• Vidyādhirāja-tīrtha 1254;
• Kavīndra-tīrtha 1261;
• Vāgīśa-tīrtha 1265;
• Rāmachandra-tīrtha 1298;
• Vidyāni-dhi-tīrtha 1306;
• Raghunātha-tīrtha 1364;
• Raghuvarya-tīrtha 1419;
• Raghūttama-tīrtha 1457;
• Vedavyāsa-tīrtha 1481;
• Vidyādhīśa-tīrtha 1493;
• Vedanidhi-tīrtha 1497;
• Satyavrata-tīrtha 1560;
• Satyanidhi-tīrtha 1582;
• Satyanātha-tīrtha 1595;
• Satyābhinava-tīrtha 1628;
• Satyapūrṇa-tīrtha 1648;
• Satyavijaya-tīrtha 1661;
• Satyapriya-tīrtha 1666;
• Satyabodha-tīrtha 1705;
• Satyasannidhāna-tīrtha 1716;
• Satyavara-tīrtha 1719;
• Satyadhāma-tīrtha 1752;
• Satyasāra-tīrtha 1763;
• Satyaparāyaṇa-tīrtha 1785;
• Satyakāma-tīrtha 1793;
• Satyeṣṭi-tīrtha 1794;
• Satyaparāyaṇa-tīrtha 1801;
• Satyavit-tīrthawas living in 1882, when the Search for Sanskrit MSS. was being written.

Thus we have a list of thirty-five Gurus, including Madhva, from 1198 śaka (the year of the death of Madhva) to Satyavit-tīrtha, who was living in śaka 1804 or A.D. 1882. This list was drawn up in consonance with the two lists procured at Belgaumand Poona. It is largelyat variance with the list given in the introduction to the commentary on the Brahma-sūtra by Baladeva. Baladeva gives the list as follows:

Madhva, Padmanābha, Nrhari, Mādhava, Akṣobhya, Jaya-tīrtha, Jñānasimha, Dayānidhi, Vidyānidhi, Rājendra, Jayadharma, Puruṣottama-tīrtha, Brahmāṇḍa-tīrtha, Vyāsa-tīrtha, Lakṣmīpati, Mādhavendra, Īśvara. Īśvara was a teacher of Caitanya. We see that the list given by Baladeva is right as far as Jaya-tīrtha; but after Jaya-tīrtha the list given by Baladeva is in total discrepancy with the two lists from the Madhva Maṭhas in Belgaum and Poona. Under the circumstances we are unable to accept the list of Gurus given by Baladeva, which has many other discrepancies into details whereof we need not enter.