By Kiyokazu Okita
Vaiṣṇavism targeted round God Kṛṣṇa used to be inaugurated through Caitanya (1486-1533) and fast grew to become probably the most influential Hindu devotional pursuits in early glossy South Asia.
In the more and more unstable past due Mughal interval, Jaisingh II attempted to set up the legitimacy of his kingship by way of resorting to an ethical discourse. As a part of this discourse, he demanded that non secular traditions in his nation comply with what he conceived of as Brahmaṇicaly normative. during this context the Gauḍīya college used to be compelled to house their loss of transparent genealogical association, loss of an self reliant remark at the Brahmasūtras, and their worship of Goddess
Radha and Kṛṣṇa, who, in response to the Gauḍīyas, weren't married. in response to a examine of Baladeva's Brahmasūtra statement, Kiyokazu Okita analyses how the Gauḍīyas spoke back to the king's demand.
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