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Vaishnavism. Ramananda Sect. 147
confined it for a brief season in a Nimb (Nlm) tree. Accord-
ing to Hindu ideas, this remarkable miracle was worked for
no unworthy or insufficient purpose. It enabled Nimbarka
to offer food just before sunset to a holy guest whose reli-
gious vows prevented his eating after dark.
No noteworthy doctrines distinguish Nimbarka's creed, ex-
cept, perhaps, that his followers, who are not very numerous,
are particular to worship the goddess Radha in conjunction
with Krishna.
Sect founded by Ramananda.
Ramananda is said to have been born in the thirteenth
century. The sect founded by him in the fourteenth cen-
tury has many adherents in Gangetic India, especially around
Agra. They are often called Ramanandls or Ramavats,
and are sometimes confounded with the Ramanujas, the fact
being that Ramananda was probably one of Ramanuja's
disciples. The Ramananda Vaishnavas, however, have dis-
tinctive doctrines of their own. They worship Vishnu under
the form of Rama (the hero of the Ramayana) either singly
or conjointly with his wife Sita, and they are not, like the
Ramanujas, hyper-scrupulous about the privacy of their meals.
Their favourite book is the Bhakta-mala of NabhajT—a work
interesting for its biographies of certain Vaishnavas and ad-
herents of the sect, among whom are included two well-
known poets, Sflr-das and Tulasl-das (commonly Tulsl-das).
The former was blind. He wrote a vast number of stanzas
in praise of Vishnu, and is regarded as a kind of patron of
blind men, especially if they roam about as wandering
musicians.
Tulsl-das, whose verses are to this day household words in
every town and rural district where the Hindi language is
spoken, ranks as a poet of higher order. He was born near
Citra-kuta about A.D. 1544, and settled at Benares, where he
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confined it for a brief season in a Nimb (Nlm) tree. Accord-
ing to Hindu ideas, this remarkable miracle was worked for
no unworthy or insufficient purpose. It enabled Nimbarka
to offer food just before sunset to a holy guest whose reli-
gious vows prevented his eating after dark.
No noteworthy doctrines distinguish Nimbarka's creed, ex-
cept, perhaps, that his followers, who are not very numerous,
are particular to worship the goddess Radha in conjunction
with Krishna.
Sect founded by Ramananda.
Ramananda is said to have been born in the thirteenth
century. The sect founded by him in the fourteenth cen-
tury has many adherents in Gangetic India, especially around
Agra. They are often called Ramanandls or Ramavats,
and are sometimes confounded with the Ramanujas, the fact
being that Ramananda was probably one of Ramanuja's
disciples. The Ramananda Vaishnavas, however, have dis-
tinctive doctrines of their own. They worship Vishnu under
the form of Rama (the hero of the Ramayana) either singly
or conjointly with his wife Sita, and they are not, like the
Ramanujas, hyper-scrupulous about the privacy of their meals.
Their favourite book is the Bhakta-mala of NabhajT—a work
interesting for its biographies of certain Vaishnavas and ad-
herents of the sect, among whom are included two well-
known poets, Sflr-das and Tulasl-das (commonly Tulsl-das).
The former was blind. He wrote a vast number of stanzas
in praise of Vishnu, and is regarded as a kind of patron of
blind men, especially if they roam about as wandering
musicians.
Tulsl-das, whose verses are to this day household words in
every town and rural district where the Hindi language is
spoken, ranks as a poet of higher order. He was born near
Citra-kuta about A.D. 1544, and settled at Benares, where he
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