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INTRODUCTION
Shri Dallabhacharya. Shri Vallabhacharya, the founder of this Pushtimarga was born on the eleventh day of the dark half of Chaitra 1535 Samvat or in 1479 A. D in Champaranya near Raichur He was a high caste Hindoo Brahmin of Vellanateeya community which is renowned as yet a pious and wel-educated community of India His ancestors were in study of the Taittireeya Shakha of the black Yajurved His father's name being Laxman Bhatt and Yallamagaru being his mother
Like other Acharyas Vallabhacharya also did believe that he was specially sent here by Lord Shri Krishna to inaugurate and introduce the way in which the Gopeos of Gocul had attained the hiyo afat or being one with Lord Shri Krishna
However, one thing is certain that he tried his best to spread religious true ideas among the learned people and growing public of the age. From his very childhood he is said to have possessed the sharpest intellect and is said to have mastered the Vedas, the Upanishads, Smruti, Purana, Itihasas and Darshanas
