Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c73.162

v2.c73.162

Vaiṣṇavism as a religious cult was Ekāntika Dharma or the religion of a single-minded love and devotion to One. In its background stood the Bhagavad-gītā. It soon assumed a sectarian form and was called the Pancarātra or Bhāgavata religion in which some of the teachings of the Upniṣads and a few general doctrines of two kinds of philosophy, the Sāmkhya and Yoga were also embodied.