Madhusūdana Sarasvatī

Madhusūdana composed Advaitasiddhi, a line-by-line refutation of Nyayamṛta. In response to Advaitasiddhi, the Dvaita scholars, Vyasa Ramacharya, and Ananda Bhattaraka, wrote Nyayamṛta Tarangini and Nyayamṛta Kantakoddhara and challenged Madhusūdana Sarasvatī.

Birth and education

Madhusūdana was born in a Vaishnava Brahmin family in a village named Unashia situated in the present-day Kotalipara division of Gopalganj district near Faridpur in Bangladesh. His father was a Sanskrit scholar named Pramod Purandaracharya Chakraborty. The pre-monastic (Pūrvāśrama) name of Madhusūdana Sarasvatī (Saraswatī) was Kamalnayan Chakraborty, and he belonged to the Pashchatya Vedic Brahmin community of Kotalipara. He was educated in the Navya-Nyāya tradition at Nabadwip under reputed scholars of those days like Harirama Tarkavagisha and Mathuranath Tarkavagisha, but later undertook sannyasa from a sannyāsi of Dashanami Sampradaya named Vishvesvara Sarasvati, and moved to Varanasi in order to study Advaita Vedanta.