Reading Community Identities and Traditions: The History and Representation of the Shrivaishnavas of South India | Semantic Scholar
@article{Dutta2015ReadingCI,
title={Reading Community Identities and Traditions: The History and Representation of the Shrivaishnavas of South India},
author={Ranjeeta Dutta},
journal={Humanities and social sciences},
year={2015},
volume={18},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161734042}
}The History of Vai‹ƒavism in South India falls naturally into three divisions. The first covering the period from the earliest times upto Ramanuja (10171137) would deal with the origin of Vai‹ƒavism, the age of the Alvars, and the age of the Acaryas from Nathamuni to Ramanuja. The second division covering a period of nearly three centuriesnthe 11th, 12th and 13th from Ramanuja to Pi ailokacarya and VeΔka¢anatha (1286-1370) may be described as the period of the unity of Vai‹ƒavism. The third and…