PrasthanatrayiPrasthānatrayī (sanskrit en devanāgarī : प्रस्थानत्रयी ; signifie : « Triade du renoncement ») est une collection de trois grands textes de l'hindouisme qui constitue le fondement de l'école philosophique āstika du Vedānta ou du système védantique. Par ordre d'ancienneté de composition des textes, nous trouvons : les Upaniṣad, le Brahma Sūtra et la Bhagavad Gītā. Ces trois grands textes sont respectés par toutes les écoles du Vedānta telles que le viśiṣṭādvaita de Rāmānuja ou le Dvaita de Madhva.
SripadarajaSripadaraja (श्रीपादराज; ) or Sripadaraya, also known by his pontifical name Lakshminarayana Tirtha (1422 - 1480), was a Hindu Dvaita philosopher, scholar and composer and the pontiff of the Madhvacharya mutt at Mulbagal. He is widely considered the founder of Haridasa movement along with Narahari Tirtha. He has influenced both Carnatic music and Hindustani music through his compositions. His songs and hymns, written under the mudra of Ranga Vitthala, contain the distillation of Dvaita principles infused with mysticism and humanism.
PancharatraPancharatra (IAST: Pāñcarātra) was a religious movement in Hinduism that originated in late 3rd-century BCE around the ideas of Narayana and the various avatars of Vishnu as their central deities. The movement later merged with the ancient Bhagavata tradition and contributed to the development of Vaishnavism. The Pancharatra movement created numerous literary treatises in Sanskrit called the Pancharatra Samhitas, and these have been influential Agamic texts within the theistic Vaishnava movements.
TattvaTattva (devanāgarī: तत्त्व) signifie en sanskrit « vérité », « réalité » ou encore « essence », « principe essentiel ». Dans la philosophie indienne, ce terme sanskrit du Sāṃkhya ne participe d'aucune religion. Repris plus avant en faux, il participe des trois courants religieux que sont, par ordre d'importance quantitative en nombre de pratiquants, l'hindouisme, le bouddhisme et le jaïnisme. . Dans l'hindouisme, il désigne les principes constitutifs du réel.
Narahari TirthaNarahari Tirtha ( 1243 - 1333) was a Dvaita philosopher, scholar, statesman and one of the disciples of Madhvacharya. He is considered to be the progenitor of the Haridasa movement along with Sripadaraja. Though only two of his scholarly works are extant, they are characterised by their verbosity and lack of digressions. A few songs of his survive under the pen name Raghukulatilaka. As a minister of considerable influence to the Eastern Ganga rulers and later as the pontiff of Madhvacharya mutt, Narahari converted the Simhachalam temple into an educational establishment of renown and a religious centre for Vaishnavism.
Vijayindra TirthaVijayīndra Tīrtha (also known as Vijayendra Tīrtha) (1514 - 1595) was a Dvaita philosopher and dialectician. A prolific writer and an unrelenting polemicist, he is said to have authored 104 treatises expounding the principles of Dvaita and defending it against attacks from the contemporary orthodox schools of Vedanta. He held the pontifical seat at Kumbakonam under the rule of Thanjavur Nayaks where he participated in polemical discussions with the Advaita philosopher Appayya Dikshita Inscriptions from that era record grants of villages received by Vijayindra for his triumph over theological debates .
