Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect

On the other hand the Niddesa list originated among the followers of Malta' Kachchayana who was the first among the chief disciples of giikyamuni through whose agency Buch;hism gained ground in the Alathurii region (ride the Madhura Sutter of the Majjhima Niktiva) the district which I have specified as the first centre of the Bldigavata movement. [...] Just as the reaction against the old Vedic sticrifides gave birth to the intellectual movement of the Upanishadie Rishis and the religious movement ofv ii PREFACE Krishna Vrtsudeva so the attempted revival of the KarmKrtncla by the Parvamimathsii school was followed by the neo-Vedantic movement of 8ankgracharya and the neBhitgavatism of the 80 Vaishnava saints. [...] I have consulted their works and the following books and journals viz.:— the Rig Veda the Ailareya Briihmana the gatapatha Bramaws the Chhandogya Upanishad the Taittiriya Aravyaka the Asht5dhyiiyi of Ptenini the Mahabhiirata the Malaya Paytt Vishnu and Bhagavata Pitravas the Budd/hat Suttas and efafakas the works of Afivaghosha the "alma antras the Journal of the Royal Asiatic soci [...] In the philosophy of the Taitt.iriya Sari:Mita the three places of Vishnu are not as in the Rig Veda the two points of the horizon and the zenith but the earth air and the sky (Hopkins the Religions of India p. 460). [...] of the Bhagavata Purina of the Saddharma-puarika or - 9f the Agokavadzina are adapted to form the basis of Chronicles of the doings of the Satilkhya sage the gakya reformer or the Maurya monarch.