Two treatises in Hindi, Gyan-lila and Yog-cintamani are also attributed to Ramanand, as are the Sanskrit works Vaisnava Mata Bhajabhaskara and Ramarcana paddhati. Saint Ramananda is credited as the author of many devotional poems, but like most Bhakti movement poets, whether he actually was the author of these poems is unclear. Other scholars state that Saint Ramananda's education started in Adi Shankara's Advaita Vedanta school, before he met Raghavananda and began his studies in Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita Vedanta school. There, and not in the South, he had Saint Ramananda as his disciple." – George A. "It was Saint Ramananda's teacher, Raghavananda, who came from the South, and after much wandering had settled at Benares. Īccording to the medieval era Bhaktamala text by Nabhadas, Saint Ramananda studied under Raghavananda, a guru (teacher) in Vedanta-based Vatakalai (northern, Rama-avatar) school of Vaishnavism. "Not one word is said as to his southern origin, and the fact that he was stated to be a Kanyakubja Brahmin is decisively against such a theory" – George A. In fact, all genuinely Indian sources agree in stating that Ramananda was born at Prayaga (Allahabad). Although few people hold him to be of southern origin, there's no evidence to support such a claim. The most accepted version holds that Saint Ramananda was born in a Brahmin family, about mid 14th-century, and died about mid 15th-century. Little is known with certainty about the life of Saint Ramananda, including year of birth and death His biography has been derived from mentions of him in secondary literature and inconsistent Hagiographies.