Twilight of the Sultanate c18.s1.5

c18.s1.5

There is very little literary work credited to Rāmānanda. But his ideas can be collected from the writings of his immediate followers who claim them to be his. Rāmānanda substituted the worship of Rāma, son of Dashrath, for that of Vishnū. Rāma was not *Nirguna*, but an incarnation of God, an ideally Perfect Being, *Maryādā Purushottama*. Him Rāmānanda worshipped and taught His