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rāmānuja

m. ‘younger brother of Rāma’ (this title would be applicable to Kṛṣṇa as born after Bala-rāma of the same father)

N. of a celebrated Vaiṣṇava reformer (founder of a particular Vedantic school which taught the doctrine of viśiṣṭādvaita or qualified non-duality i.e. that the human spirit is separate and different from the one Supreme Spirit though dependent on it and ultimately to be united with it; he lived at Kāñcīpuram and Śrī-raṅgam in the South of India, in the 12th century, and is believed by his followers to have been an incarnation of Śeṣa; he is also called Rāmānujācārya and Yati-rāja; n. or °jam matam, Rāmānuja's doctrine), [RTL. 119, 448] &c.

(with dīkṣita) N. of another author, [Cat.]