The dates of Viṣṇusvāmī's life are unknown, but scholars conjecture he lived circa the 13th century.
[5] There exists a copper land-grant plate dated to 1661, which states that the Vijayanagara ruler Raṁga Rāya gifted the villages of Raṇaghaṭa and Hirekalyāṇi to the head of the Viṣṇusvāmī maṭha.
The plate states that Viṣṇusvāmī could claim apostolic succession to one Gauḍapāda, the student of Śuka, and thereby to Vyāsa and Nārada.
When Vallabha won the śāstrārtha in Vidyanagara, he became the ācārya of the school and greatly promoted its ideas.
[8] In 1812, the king of Mysore Kr̥ṣṇa Rāja Oḍeyar III remitted the taxes owed by Kr̥ṣṇānanda Svāmī, who was the head of the Viṣṇusvāmī maṭha.