वल्लभाचार्य

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

वल्लभाचार्य/ वल्लभा m. N. of a celebrated वैष्णवteacher (successor of a less celebrated teacher विष्णुस्वामिन्; he was born , it is said , in the forest of चम्पारण्यin 1479 ; at an early age he travelling to propagate his doctrines , and at the court of कृष्णदेव, king of विजय-नगर, succeeded so well in his controversies with the शैवs that the वैष्णवs chose him as their chief ; he then went to other parts of India , and finally settled down at Benares , where he composed seventeen works , the most important of which were a commentary on the वेदा-न्तand मीमांसासूत्रs and another on the भागवत-पुराण, on which last the sect rest their doctrines ; he left behind eighty-four disciples , of each of whom some story is told , and these stories are often repeated on festive occasions. He taught a non-ascetical view of religion and deprecated all self-mortification as dishonouring the body which contained a portion of the supreme Spirit. His followers in Bombay and Gujarat , and their leaders , are called महा-राजs ; they are called the epicureans of India) RTL. 134-137