Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya

Guru-Parampara Chart

This chart traces every guru-disciple relationship recorded on this site — built directly from the same profiles and citations as the rest of this section, not a separate or simplified account. Solid lines are relationships this project could confirm from named sources; dashed lines and the ? marker flag a link that sources dispute or that this project could not confirm. Click + to open a branch, click any name to read that acharya's full biography.

78 profiles in this chart

Confirmed guru-disciple relationship Disputed or unconfirmed link — see the note ?Top of an independent branch — hover/tap the marker for why Where a named sampradaya begins Line color cycles by nesting depth only — it doesn't mark category or lineage. Hover/tap any line to see whose branch it is.

Sri KrishnaSvayam Bhagavan — the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Source of All Avataras1 disciple

Sri Nityananda PrabhuPatita-pavana, the Deliverer of the Fallenc. 1474, Magha Sukla Trayodashi – c. 15409 disciples
? As a member of the Panca-tattva, identified in Gaudiya theology with Balarama, Krishna's own eternal expansion, Nityananda Prabhu is not depicted as having taken initiation from a guru in the ordinary sense.

Srila Gaura Kishora Dasa BabajiThe Renounced Mendicant of Vrindavana and Nabadwip17 November 1838 – 17 November 1915, on his 77th birthday1 disciple
? He took vows as a babaji "in the line of" Jagannatha Dasa Babaji, but this site's own research found that even Vaishnava sources themselves do not agree on the specific individual who gave him initiation.
- Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ThakuraFounder of the Gaudiya Math6 February 1874, 3:30 pm – 1 January 1937, at the age of 623 disciples

Srila Gauridasa PanditHouseholder Devotee Who Installed the Gaura-Nitai Deities of Ambika KalnaNot recorded (late 15th century); first lived at Saligrama, Bengal – Shukla Ekadashi, Shravana (year not recorded)1 disciple
? No source consulted for this project names his own initiating guru.
- Srila Hridaya ChaitanyaThe Guru Who Discovered Shyamananda PanditNot recorded (flourished in the generation after Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, mid-16th century) – Not recorded (before 1630 AD, during Shyamananda Pandit's later years preaching in Utkal)1 disciple
  - Srila Shyamananda PanditThe Milkman's Son Who Carried the Goswamis HomeChaitra Purnima; traditionally dated 1535 AD by one detailed household-lineage account, though most sources give no year – Krishna-pratipada (first lunar day of the dark fortnight), month of Ashadha; year given as 1623 AD by one detailed source, and as Shaka 1552 / 1630 AD elsewhere on this site — sources disagree2 disciples

Srila Jagannatha Dasa BabajiVaishnava Sarvabhauma — Emperor Among the Vaishnavasc. 1800 – date not precisely recorded; Vaishnava tradition holds he lived to an extraordinary age1 disciple
? His own biography traces his guru-lineage back through Madhusudana Dasa Babaji and an earlier Uddhava Dasa to the Vedanta commentator Baladeva Vidyabhushana — but those two intermediate figures do not yet have their own profiles on this site, so the link can't be drawn here yet.
- Srila Bhaktivinoda ThakuraThe Seventh Goswami2 September 1838 – 23 June 1914, at the age of 75

Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti ThakuraAuthor of the Sarartha-darsini and Architect of Raganuga-Bhaktic. 1626 (sources vary widely, 1610s-1660s) – c. 1708, Vasanta-panchami (Magha)1 disciple
? Sources disagree on whether Krishnacarana Chakravarti or his own disciple Radharamana Chakravarti actually gave him diksha; this site's own research reports both rather than guessing. Neither has a profile here yet.
- Srila Baladeva VidyabhusanaAuthor of the Govinda-bhashyac. early 18th century (exact year unknown) – traditionally 1768; some scholars place it as late as 1793 (disputed)

Srila Jahnava MataConsort of Nityananda Prabhu Who Led Gaudiya Vaishnavism After 1534Early 16th century (exact year unrecorded in primary sources; one secondary source gives 1509) – Shukla Navami, month of Vaishakha (year not established in the sources checked for this page)1 disciple
? Nityananda Prabhu's consort. After 1534 she was acknowledged as the Gaudiya Vaishnava movement's own diksha-guru and head — Srila Prabhupada said plainly that she "was acharya" — rather than being recorded as anyone's formal disciple herself.
- Srila Viracandra PrabhuSon of Nityananda Prabhu and Founding Figure of the Nityananda-vamsaNinth day of the dark fortnight of Kartika, per one tradition; Agrahayana shukla chaturdashi (the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of Agrahayana), per the Gaudiya Vaishnava Abhidhana - sources disagree, and no year is reliably established – Not recorded in any source checked for this page