रामानुज
Sanskrit
[edit]Etymology
[edit]राम (rāma) + अनुज (anuja, “younger brother”).
Noun
[edit]रामानुज • (rāmānuja) stem, m
- ‘younger brother of Rāma’ (this title would be applicable to Krishna as born after Bala-Rāma of the same father)
- name of a celebrated Vaishnava reformer (founder of a particular Vedantic school which taught the doctrine of qualified non-duality i.e. that the human spirit is separate and different from the one Supreme Spirit though dependent on it and ultimately to be united with it ; he lived at Kancipuram and Sri-rangam in the South of India, in the 12th century, and is believed by his followers to have been an incarnation of Shesha ; he is also called रामानुजाचार्य and यतिराज ; n. or जम् मतम्, रामानुज's doctrine) RTL. 119, 448 &c.
- (with दीक्षित) name of another author Cat.
Descendants
[edit]- → Tamil: இராமானுசன் (irāmāṉucaṉ)
References
[edit]- Monier Williams (1899) “रामानुज”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0878.