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184 followers are called Sanakadi Sampradayis or Nimawats, and they have been noticed in Wilson's Essay on the Religions Sects of the Hindus (Asiatic Researches, XVI. 108-8). He mentions previous preceptors named Krishna, Hamsa and Aniruddha. The four Sampradayas named after Sri, Brahma, Rudra and Sanaka are also mentioned. The mention of the first three would make him posterior to Ramanuja, who lived about the middle of the twelfth century, to Madhvacharya who lived in the beginning of the fourteenth century and to Vallabhacharya who lived in the beginning of the sixteenth century. Dr. Hall (Contributions, pref. XXVI.) classes Nimbarka among "the more recent Indian schismatics." It might be probable that the work under notice has been manipulated towards the introduction and the prelude by devout disciples, for in the former he is described as an avatara, and the latter contains a salutation to himself. This MS. was written in the mouth of Chaitra, Sk. 1717 by Ramachandra Chattopadhyaya for his own use. Beginning. srasritya krsnajinsa rojamatmano dharmadhvabodham vidadhe niyojitah | durvvadasandigdhajanabhramapaham satsampradayadiviviktaye dhruvam || yenaniruddhadibhiradi natmano'nukramya rupaistanupancapancakam | pradyumnamukhyairiva tattvasamhateh saduvimsakam krsnamaye pravarttitam || yaih krsnasisyairanusiksitena tu sandistamadaya hi pancapancakam | End: paryyemi tamstacca gurun sasisyakan vande kumaran khagurucca naradam || ityadi | dainyadiratiparyyantamupadisatyanukramat | antarvahihsu sacadvai bhakti gurukharupatah | bhaktyapyate khayam krsna iti rajannatah kramah || namah krsnaya hamsaya nimbakiyaniruddhatah | vacaryyiya caturvyuhaparamparapravarttine || Colophon. iti svadharmadhvabodhe sribhagavannimbadityavinirmite mulagranyanibandhe srikrsnapti- pravrttinirdeso nama pancamo'bhyasah | sake balarkasaptatitipariganite masi caitre pranamya srikrsna ramacandro dvijavaratanayahavamsaprarutah | vyalekhidatmabodhaya hi parabhagavannimbavaryyapranitam grantham dharmmadhvabodham haripadayugalapraptihetum suramyam || saka 1717 ||