Madhusūdana Sarasvatī

Madhusudana Sarasvati was an Indian philosopher of the Advaita Vedanta tradition and a devotee of Krishna, who lived in the sixteenth century and perhaps into the seventeenth; the English Wikipedia article dates him about 1490 to 1580, while 1001 Philosophers gives about 1540 to about 1640. He was born into a Vaishnava Brahmin family in a village near Faridpur in present-day Bangladesh, was educated in the Navya-Nyaya tradition at Nabadwip, then took sannyasa from Vishvesvara Sarasvati of the Dashanami order and moved to Varanasi to study Advaita Vedanta. His most outstanding work, the Advaitasiddhi, is a line-by-line refutation of the Dvaita scholar Vyasatirtha's Nyayamrta and drew replies from Dvaita writers. He also wrote the Siddhantabindu, commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita and the Bhagavata Purana, and works on devotion, and he gave more weight to devotion than Shankara did, so linking Advaita Vedanta with northern Vaishnava sects.