Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.64
Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.64
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c8.64
Mr. Aiyangar rightly considers the hypothesis of a plagiarism from Christianity to be an error which arises from not giving due weight to the indebtedness of Rāmānuja to those Tamil Saints that had gone before him ere he came into the world. The Tamil Saints to whom Mr. Aiyangar refers are the Āchāryas Nāthamuni and Ālvandār (Yāmunāchārya) and their precursors the Ālvārs.¹