Vishnusvamin

Vishnusvamin, in Hinduism, a Vaishnavite sampradaya (spiritual tradition tracing its lineage to a mythic or divine figure) founded probably in the early 15th century by Vishnusvamin, a South Indian religious figure who taught chiefly in Gujarat state. His system, also called Rudra-sampradaya (“tradition taught by Rudra,” a name for the god Shiva), was similar to the dualism taught by Madhva, 13th-century founder of the Dvaita (dualist) school of Vedanta theology. Unlike the latter, however, Vishnusvamin...