Mesquita (pp. 30-31) cites with apparent approval the list of unfamiliar sources from Madhva's BSBh. objected to by Appayyadiksita (17th cent.), and proceeds to assume without verification that all of them, as well as others like them, must indeed be unknown. This amounts to putting too much faith in a medieval traditionalist's claims, a rather odd thing for a modern scholar to do. Mesquita also is apparently unaware of the reply to Appayyadiksita by his Madhva contemporaries Vijayindra Tirtha5 and Narayanacarya,6whom he completely fails even to mention. The work of Vijayindra has been published.7
Here are some ``fictitious'' sources of Madhva, and independent
evidences of their reality--