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save thee, there is none other that will show me compassion: do thou, then, have mercy upon me: let not weariness, hunger, anxiety, and restlessness consume this frame with momentary decay. Lord of MIRA, GIRDHARA her beloved, accept her, and never let her be separated from thee.
BRAHMA SAMPRADÁYÍS, or MADHWÁCHÁRÍS.
This division of the Vaishnavas is altogether unknown in Gangetic Hindustan. A few individuals belonging to it, who are natives of southern India, may be occasionally encountered, but they are not sufficiently numerous to form a distinct community, nor have they any temple or teachers of their own. It is in the peninsula, that the sect is most extensively to be found, and it is not comprised, therefore, in the scope of this sketch: as, however, it is acknowledged to be one of the four great Sampradayas, or religious systems, such brief notices of it as have been collected will not be wholly out of place.
The institution of this sect is posterior to that of the Sri Vaishnavas, or Rámánujas: the founder was MADHWACHARYA', a Brahman, the son of MADHIGE BHATTA, who was born in the Saka year 1121 (A. D. 1199) in Tuluva: according to the legendary belief of
* [Dr. Graul's Reise nach Ostindien. Leipzig: 1855. Vol. IV, p. 139.]
In the Sarvadarsana Sangraha he is cited by the name Púrna Prajna – —a work is also quoted as written by him under the name of Madhya Mandira. Reference is also made to him by the title, most frequently found in the works ascribed to him, of Ananda Tirtha [Sarvad. Sangr. p. 73.].
