Vaidya Pandit Kailash Mishra “Deenbandhu” led a holy and exemplary life like a saint. He provided medical assistance to the underprivileged population in the remote area of Purnia, Bihar.
The register of the genealogy of Maithil Brahmins is still preserved. Pandit Kailash Mishra was a descendant of Mandan Mishra, a contemporary of Adi Shankaracharya, a famous guru of Advaita Vedanta philosophy, who later became a monk after being defeated in a spiritual debate with Shankaracharya and was named Sureshvaracharya. In the 8th century, Adi Shankaracharya and his disciple Sureshvaracharya established the first Sringeri Matha and Sharda Matha. The Mahavakya of this Math is ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ and is placed under ‘Yajurveda’. It is said that the great scholar, Bharti, the wife of Mandan Mishra, the author of Brahma Siddhi, was an incarnation of the Maa Saraswati. Those sannyasins who received initiation under the Sringeri Math are given the names of the Saraswati, Bharati and Puri sects.