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Vallabha, the Glossary

Vallabha, or Vallabhacharya (1479–1531 CE), was an Indian saint and philosopher.^[1]

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1479 births
16th-century Hindu philosophers and theologians
16th-century Indian philosophers
People from Raipur district

Acharya

In Indian religions and society, an acharya (Sanskrit: आचार्य, IAST:; Pali: ācariya) is a religious teacher in Hinduism and Buddhism and a spiritual guide to Hindus and Buddhists.

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Advaita Vedanta

Advaita Vedanta (अद्वैत वेदान्त) is a Hindu tradition of textual exegesis and philosophy and a Hindu sādhanā, a path of spiritual discipline and experience.

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Ahir or Aheer (Sanskrit: Abhira) are a community of traditionally non-elite pastoralists in India, most members of which identify as being of the Indian Yadav community because they consider the two terms to be synonymous.

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Ambala

Ambala is a city and a municipal corporation in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India, located on the border with the Indian state of Punjab and in proximity to both states capital Chandigarh.

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Asceticism

Asceticism is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.

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Avatar

Avatar is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means.

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Balarama

Balarama (बलराम) is a Hindu god, and the elder brother of Krishna.

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Bania (caste)

Bania (also spelled Baniya, Banija, Banya, Vaniya, Vani, Vania and Vanya) is a mercantile caste mainly from the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan, with strong diasporic communities in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra (mainly Mumbai) and other northern states.

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Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita (translit-std), often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata.

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Bhagavata Purana

The Bhagavata Purana (भागवतपुराण), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana or simply Bhagavata (Bhāgavata), is one of Hinduism's eighteen great Puranas (Mahapuranas).

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Bhagavata Sampradaya

The Bhagavata (Sanskrit: भागवत, romanised: Bhāgavata) tradition, also called Bhagavatism, refers to an ancient religious sect that traced its origin to the region of Mathura. Vallabha and Bhagavata Sampradaya are bhakti movement.

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Bhakti movement

The Bhakti movement was a significant religious movement in medieval Hinduism that sought to bring religious reforms to all strata of society by adopting the method of devotion to achieve salvation.

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Bhakti yoga

Bhakti yoga (भक्ति योग), also called Bhakti marga (भक्ति मार्ग, literally the path of bhakti), is a spiritual path or spiritual practice within Hinduism focused on loving devotion towards any personal deity. Vallabha and bhakti yoga are bhakti movement.

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Bharadvaja

Bharadvaja (भरद्वाज,; also spelled Bharadwaja) was one of the revered Vedic sages (maharishi) in Ancient India.

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Bhatia caste

Bhatia is a group of people and a caste found in Punjab, Sindh and Gujarat.

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Bhumihar

Bhumihar, also locally called Bhuinhar and Babhan, is a Hindu caste mainly found in Bihar (including the Mithila region), the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, and Nepal.

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Brahma Sutras

The Brahma Sūtras (ब्रह्मसूत्राणि), also known as the Vedanta Sūtra (Sanskrit: वेदान्त सूत्र), Shariraka Sūtra, and Bhikshu-sūtra, are a Sanskrit text which synthesizes and harmonizes Upanishadic ideas and practices.

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Brahmacharya

Brahmacharya (Devanagari: ब्रह्मचर्य) is a concept within Indian religions that literally means "conduct consistent with Brahma" or "on the path of Brahma".

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Brahman

In Hinduism, Brahman (ब्रह्मन्; IAST: Brahman) connotes the highest universal principle, the Ultimate Reality of the universe.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.

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Braj

Braj, also known as Vraj, Vraja, Brij or Brijbhumi, is a region in India on both sides of the Yamuna river with its centre at Mathura-Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh state encompassing the area which also includes Palwal, Ballabhgarh and Nuh in Haryana state, Deeg, Bharatpur, Karauli, and Dholpur in Rajasthan state and Morena District in Madhya Pradesh.

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Braj Bhasha

Braj is a language within the Indo-Aryan language family spoken in the Braj region centered on Mathura.

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Champaran, Chhattisgarh

The village is identified with Champaranya and therefore has religious significance as the birthplace of the Jagadguru Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya, the reformer and founder of the Vallabh sect also known as Pushtimarg.

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Dvaita Vedanta

Dvaita Vedanta; (originally known as Tattvavada; IAST: Tattvavāda), is a sub-school in the Vedanta tradition of Hindu philosophy.

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Dwarka

Dwarka is a town and municipality of Devbhumi Dwarka district in the state of Gujarat.

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Ganges

The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Godavari River

The Godavari (ɡod̪aːʋəɾiː) is India's second longest river after the Ganga River and drains the third largest basin in India, covering about 10% of India's total geographical area. Its source is in Trimbakeshwar, Nashik, Maharashtra. It flows east for, draining the states of Maharashtra (48.6%), Telangana (18.8%), Andhra Pradesh (4.5%), Chhattisgarh (10.9%) and Odisha (5.7%).

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Gokul

Gokul is a town in the Mathura district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Govardhan

Govardhan also called Giriraj, is a key pilgrimage centre in India and a municipal town; a nagar panchayat; seat of an MLA (Member of Legislative Assembly) of Uttar Pradesh; a Tehsil, in Mathura district in India in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Govardhan Hill

Govardhana Hill (गोवर्धन), also called Mount Govardhana and Giriraj, is a sacred Hindu site in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, India on an 8 km long hill located in the area of Govardhan and Radha Kund, which is about from Vrindavan.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Gurjar

The Gurjar (or Gujjar, Gujar, Gurjara) are an Indo-Aryan agricultural ethnic community, residing mainly in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, divided internally into various clan groups.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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India Post

India Post is an Indian government-operated postal system in India, and is the trade name of the Department of Post under the Ministry of Communications.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indo-Gangetic Plain

The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the North Indian River Plain, is a fertile plain encompassing northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including most of modern-day northern and eastern India, most of eastern-Pakistan, virtually all of Bangladesh and southern plains of Nepal.

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Jagannath

Jagannatha (Jagannātha; formerly Juggernaut) is a deity worshipped in regional Hindu traditions in India as part of a triad along with his (Krishna's) brother Balabhadra, and sister, Subhadra.

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Jagannath Temple, Puri

The Jagannath Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Jagannath, a form of Vishnu in Hinduism.

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in eastern India.

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Kannauj

Kannauj (Hindustani pronunciation: kənːɔːd͡ʒ) is an ancient city, administrative headquarters and a municipal board or Nagar Palika Parishad in Kannauj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Krishna

Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.

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Krishnadevaraya

Krishnadevaraya (17 January 1471 — 17 October 1529) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire reigning from 1509 to 1529.

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Kshatriya

Kshatriya (from Sanskrit, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy.

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Kurmi

Kurmi is traditionally a non-elite tiller caste in the lower Gangetic plain of India, especially southern regions of Awadh, eastern Uttar Pradesh and parts of Bihar.

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Madhvacharya

Madhvacharya (1199–1278 CE or 1238–1317 CE), also known as Purna Prajna and Ānanda Tīrtha, was an Indian philosopher, theologian and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta. Vallabha and Madhvacharya are bhakti movement, Indian Hindu spiritual teachers, Indian Vaishnavites, Sanskrit poets and Vaishnava saints.

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Mantra

A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indic language like Sanskrit) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.

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Mathura

Mathura is a city and the administrative headquarters of Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Maya (religion)

Maya (Devanagari: माया, IAST), literally "illusion" or "magic", has multiple meanings in Indian philosophies depending on the context.

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Nimbarkacharya

Nimbarkacharya (Nimbārkāchārya) (12th century), also known as Nimbarka, Nimbaditya or Niyamananda, was a Hindu philosopher, theologian and the chief proponent of the theology of Dvaitadvaita (dvaita–advaita) or dualistic–non-dualistic sometimes known as svabhavika bhedabheda. Vallabha and Nimbarkacharya are Indian Hindu spiritual teachers and Vaishnava saints.

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Pandharpur

Pandharpur (Pronunciation: pəɳɖʱəɾpuːɾ) is a Popular pilgrimage town, on the banks of Chandrabhagā River, near Solapur city in Solapur District, Maharashtra, India.

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Para Brahman

Para Brahman or Param Brahman (translit-std) in Hindu philosophy is the "Supreme Brahman" that which is beyond all descriptions and conceptualisations.

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Patidar

Patidar (Gujarati), formerly known as Kanbi (Gujarati), is an Indian land-owning and peasant caste and community native to Gujarat.

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Prayagraj

Prayagraj (ISO), also known as Allahabad or Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Prosopis cineraria

Prosopis cineraria, also known as ghaf, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae.

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Puja (Hinduism)

Puja (translit-std), also spelt pooja, is a worship ritual performed by Hindus to offer devotional homage and prayer to one or more deities, to host and honour a guest, or to spiritually celebrate an event.

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Puri

Puri is a coastal city and a municipality in the state of Odisha in eastern India.

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Pushtimarga Sampradaya

The Puṣṭimārga or Pushtimarg, also known as, is a sect of Vaishnavism.

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Rajput

Rajput (from Sanskrit rājaputra meaning "son of a king"), also called Thakur, is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Ramanuja

Ramanuja (Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja; 1077 – 1157), also known as Ramanujacharya, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and a social reformer. Vallabha and Ramanuja are Indian Hindu spiritual teachers, Indian Vaishnavites and Vaishnava saints.

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Raslila

The Raslila, also rendered the Rasalila or the Ras dance, is part of a traditional story described in Hindu texts such as the Bhagavata Purana and Gita Govinda, where Krishna dances with Radha and the gopis of Braj.

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Rudra Sampradaya

In Hinduism, the Rudra Sampradaya is one of four Vaishnava sampradayas, a tradition of disciplic succession in the religion.

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Sannyasa

Sannyasa (Sanskrit: संन्यास; IAST), sometimes spelled Sanyasa or Sanyasi (for the person), is life of renunciation and the fourth stage within the Hindu system of four life stages known as Ashramas, with the first three being Brahmacharya (on the path of Brahma), Grihastha (householder) and Vanaprastha (forest dweller, retired).

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sat Vaishnavism

Sad Vaishnavism, (popularly referred as Madhva Sampradaya, Madhva Vaishnavism and Brahma Sampradaya), is a denomination within the VaishnavismBhagavata tradition of Hinduism.

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Sevā

(also transcribed as) is the concept of selfless service that is performed without any expectation of reward for performing it.

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Shastrartha

Shastrartha (translit) is a type of intellectual debate prevalent in India.

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Shloka

Shloka or śloka (श्लोक, from the root श्रु, Macdonell, Arthur A., A Sanskrit Grammar for Students, Appendix II, p. 232 (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 1927). in a broader sense, according to Monier-Williams's dictionary, is "any verse or stanza; a proverb, saying"; but in particular it refers to the 32-syllable verse, derived from the Vedic anuṣṭubh metre, used in the Bhagavad Gita and many other works of classical Sanskrit literature.

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Shrinathji

Shrinathji is a form of Krishna, manifested as a seven-year-old child.

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Shuddhadvaita

Shuddadvaita (Sanskrit: "pure non-dualism") is the "purely non-dual" philosophy propounded by the Hindu philosopher Vallabha (1479-1531 CE), the founder of ("The path of grace"), a Vaishnava tradition focused on the worship of the deity Krishna. Vallabha and Shuddhadvaita are bhakti movement.

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Shudra

Shudra or Shoodra (Sanskrit) is one of the four varnas of the Hindu caste and social system in ancient India.

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Taittiriya Shakha

The Taittirīya Shakha (Sanskrit, loosely meaning 'Branch or School of the sage Tittiri'), is a shakha (i.e. 'branch', 'school', or rescension) of the Krishna (black) Yajurveda.

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Telugu Brahmin

Telugu Brahmins are Telugu-speaking Brahmin communities native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

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Tirupati

Tirupati is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.

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Vaishnavism

Vaishnavism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu denominations along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism. Vallabha and Vaishnavism are bhakti movement.

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Vaishya

Vaishya (Sanskrit: वैश्य, vaiśya) is one of the four varnas of the Vedic Hindu social order in India.

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Varanasi

Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.

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Vedanta

Vedanta (वेदान्त), also known as Uttara Mīmāṃsā, is one of the six orthodox (''āstika'') traditions of textual exegesis and Hindu philosophy.

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Venkateswara

Venkateswara, Venkatachalapati, Balaji, or Srinivasa, is a form of the Hindu deity Vishnu and is the presiding deity of the Venkateshwara Temple, located in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Venkateswara Temple, Tirumala

The Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple is a Hindu temple situated in the hills of Tirumala at Tirupati in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Vijayanagara

Vijayanagara was a city at the modern location of Hampi, in the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Vijayanagara Empire

The Vijayanagara Empire was a late medieval Hindu empire that ruled much of southern India.

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Vishnuswami

Viṣṇusvāmī was a Hindu religious leader.

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Vithoba

Vithoba (IAST: Viṭhobā), also known as Vitthala (IAST: Viṭṭhala), and Panduranga (IAST: Pāṇḍuraṅga), is a Hindu deity predominantly worshipped in the Indian state of Maharashtra and Karnataka.

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Vitthalanatha

Vitthala-natha or Vitthalanath (IAST: Viṭṭhalanātha, c. 1516–1588), popularly known as Gusainji, was an Indian philosopher.

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Vyasa

Krishna Dvaipayana (कृष्णद्वैपायन), better known as Vyasadeva(lit) or Veda Vyasa (lit), is a revered ''rishi'' (sage) portrayed in most Hindu traditions. Vallabha and Vyasa are Sanskrit poets.

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Vyasatirtha

Vyāsatīrtha, also called Vyasaraja or Chandrikacharya, was a Hindu philosopher, scholar, polemicist, commentator and poet belonging to the Madhwacharya's Dvaita order of Vedanta. Vallabha and Vyasatirtha are 16th-century Indian philosophers and Sanskrit poets.

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