Sri Vallabhacharya - Pushti Darshan

The Birth-date of Vallabhacarya 3
Of the authorities mentioned above, the works like Sampradaya-Pradtpa, Vallabhacarya-Caritra, Caritra Cintamani,
Vaisnava-Vartamala, Vallabhakhyana and Gharu-Varta, although they furnish the other important details of the life of
the Acarya, are unfortunately silent on the point of the date of Acaryas birth. They cannot, therefore, throw any light
on the present problem.
The other works wonderfully agree at least in one point that the Acarya was born on the eleventh day of the dark half
of the month of Caitra which corresponds to the month of Vaishakha according to the convention of the people living
in the territory of Vraja round about Mathura in the north. But these authorities differ with regard to the day, some
mentioning Sunday, some 2 mentioning Thursday and some others 8
1. The horoscope (cf. Brhatstotra-Saritsagara, p. 143, Gujarati Press Edition, 1927 A.D.. Bombay). Nija-Varta,
p. 3, edited by Mr.. Govardhandas Laxmidas, 18!)4, Bombay, and some Kirtanas (cf. Pustimargiya Padangraha (PP.),
Vol. I. pp. 413,439, 444, 446. Edition of 1895.]
The horoscope is as follows :-
#¢ßÌ÷÷ 1535 K·ð¤ 1400 ßñKæ¹·ë¤c¦ð
11 Úßõ ÏçÙcÆæÙCäð KéÖØô»ð Õß·¤Ú¦ð
°ß¢ Âʿ梻 BèçÎÙ»Ì#×SÌÚæçä»ÌHÅè
= 1 #êØü Ð 2 KçÙ Ð 4 ×¢-»é Ð 5 Úæãé Ð
11 Ké - ¿¢ ·ð¤ Ð 12 ÕéÏ
2. Vallabha-Digvijaya ofYadunathaji, p. 17, 1918, Nathadwar. p H. p. 426.
3. Kallola, Vallabha-Ve!a and Prakatya-Siddhanta.
Kallola and Prakatya-Siddhanta are not published as yet. I have used my mss. which were based on the very old mss.
at Baroda and Devagadh Baria. Vallabha-Vela was partly published some years ago in a Sanskrit-Gujarati monthly,
now defunct, Vaisnavadharma-pataka, {V.P.)VIII years, p.37. .