Our Sampradhayam (second attempt)

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Folowing is based on my limited understanding of our Sampradhayam:

 

The Visistadvaita (or the Sri Sampradhaya) was practiced under a

different name: BhAgavata (or EkAyana or PAncarAtra) religion.

 

There have been lot of references to this in various Puranas and

IthihAs. Sri. A Govindacarya in his groundbreaking analysis on

PAncarAtra, mentions that PAdma Tatra and Vishnu Purana

gives a whole lot of detail on BhAgavata Religion. In his paper

(PAncarAtra or BhAgavata-Sastra, published in 1909),

Sri. A Govindacarya traces the relationship between the

BhAgavata religion and Sri Sampradhayam. He refers

to Isvara Samhita and other works and establishes the

legitimacy of the GuruParampara, the traditional respect

and devotion for Sriman Narayana, followed by Sri, Senai

Mudhaliyar, Nammazvar etc.

 

 

There are not that many publications on this topic. Sri Krishnamachari

has a series of articles published in SaraNAgati Journal. You can go

to the archives form http://www.SriVaishnava.org/sgati. there is also

a book by Oto Schrader (sp?) published by Adyar Library that talkes

about PAncarAtra and related Samhitas. Another source may be:

 

Pancaratra Samhitas and Early Vaisnava Theology by

Mitsunori Matsubara Published by Motilal Banarsidas.

 

Also refer to Narayananeeyam (sp?) with translation from RK Mutt.

 

In general all of these Sanskrit works, in general state that, In Kali

Yugam, there will be many bhaktas of Sriman Narayana, but most

of them will be concentrated in the Dravida land and sing his praises

in the Dravida language (which includes, according to some accounts,

Malayalam and telugu, along with Tamil).

 

if you are interested, you can download the paper by

Sri A. Govindacary at a latter date form my WEB site. I am still

in the process of typing it. It seems that this was the first

publication on PAncarAtra to appear in a Western Journal.

 

regards,

 

 

 

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