Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus c5.31

c5.31

The Vaishnava forms of the Hindu faith, are still, as we shall hereafter see, sufficiently numerous ; but we can scarcely identify any one of them with those which seem to have prevailed when the Sankara Vijaya of ANANDA GIRI was composed. The great divisions, of RA'MA'NUJA and RA'MA'NAND—the former of which originated, we know, in the course of the eleventh century, are unnoticed, and it is also worth while to observe, that neither in this, nor in any other portion of the Sankara Vijaya, is any allusion made to the separate worship of KRISHNA, either in his own person, or that of the infantine forms in which he is now so preeminently venerated in many parts of India, nor are the names of R'AMA and SITA', of LAKSHMANA or HANUMA'N, once particularised, as enjoying any portion of distinct and specific adoration.