INDOLOGY Digest - 10 May 1999 to 11 May 1999 (#1999-55)

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

--- Balaji Hebbar <bhebbar at EROLS.COM> wrote:

> To  answer  Nanda  Chandran's  point:
> The  Shri-VaiShNava  SampradAya  is  called  Ubhaya-VedAnta  for
> precisely  this  reason  that  they  accept  as  EQUALLY  authoritative
> the  Sanskrit  Vedas  and  the  Tamil  AzhvAr  Prabandhams.  Hence  both
> Tengalais  and  VaDagalais  accept  both.  The  question  then  is  one
> of  EMPHASIS.  The  VaDagalais  tend  to  lay  emphasis  on  the
> Sanskritic  side,  the  thengalais (corrected!)  on  the  Tamil  side.
>>    All  this  of
>>    course  IN  ADDITION  TO  the  18  theological  differences  between
>>    them.

  I would think that the populations from which vaDakalai and thenkalai
are drawn from has more to do with the sect separation, rather than
the 18 theological differences. Probably, a need was felt and 18
difference theory was produced to sanctify the difference.

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