VishnouismeLe vishnouisme (vaishnavisme) est un courant de l'hindouisme basé sur le système philosophique et religieux du Védanta. Sa pratique est la dévotion (bhakti) envers Vishnou comme Dieu suprême en tant que tel ou à travers ses incarnations Krishna et Rāma. C'est l'une des plus importantes expressions spirituelles de l'hindouisme avec le shivaïsme. Le nom des dévots de la divinité, les vishnouites, est vaishnava (vaiṣṇava en sanskrit ; devanāgarī : वैष्णव), mais il désigne aussi toute chose en relation avec elle.
HaridasaThe Haridasa Bhakti Sahitya devotional movement (sampradaya) originated in Karnataka, India, after Madhvacharya, and spread to eastern states such as Bengal and Assam of medieval India. Over a span of nearly six centuries, several saints and mystics helped shape the culture, philosophy and art of South India in general and Karnataka in particular by exerting considerable spiritual influence over the masses and kingdoms that ruled South India.
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.
VyasatirthaVyāsatīrtha (. 1460 – 1539), also called Vyasaraja or Chandrikacharya, was a Hindu philosopher, scholar, polemicist, commentator and poet belonging to the Madhwacharya's Dvaita order of Vedanta. As the patron saint of the Vijayanagara Empire, Vyasatirtha was at the forefront of a golden age in Dvaita which saw new developments in dialectical thought, growth of the Haridasa literature under bards like Purandara Dasa and Kanaka Dasa and an amplified spread of Dvaita across the subcontinent.
Musique carnatiquevignette|Ensemble de musique carnatique en performance à Bangalore. La musique carnatique (du nom du Carnatic, une ancienne région du Deccan, plus large que l'actuel État du Karnataka) est la tradition de la musique classique indienne issue de l’Inde du Sud (complémentaire de la tradition issue de l’Inde du Nord, la musique hindoustanie). Elle met l'accent sur la structure et l'improvisation, alors que l'hindoustanie développe l'expression et le sentiment.
Math (monde indien)A matha (/mʌt/; मठ, ), also written as math, muth, mutth, mutt, or mut, is a Sanskrit word that means 'institute or college', and it also refers to a monastery in Hinduism. An alternative term for such a monastery is adheenam. The earliest epigraphical evidence for mathas related to Hindu-temples comes from the 7th to 10th century CE. The most famous Advaita Vedanta mathas or peethams, which came to be affiliated with the Advaita tradition in the 14th century, are Govardhanmaṭha Pīṭhaṃ at Puri, Odisha; Śārada Pīṭhaṃ at Sringeri, Karnataka; Kalika Pīṭhaṃ at Dvāraka, Gujarat; Jyotirmaṭha Pīṭhaṃ at Badari, Uttarakhand; and Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham at Kanchi, Tamil Nadu.
KannadaLe kannada ou kannara (kn), anciennement canarais et, plus rarement, sirigannada, est l'une des plus anciennes langues dravidiennes, langue maternelle de personnes en Inde, dont dans l'État du Karnataka. C'est la langue officielle du Karnataka, l'un des quatre États du sud de l'Inde. Une anthologie du nom de Shivatattvaratnakara, éditée au , fut rédigée en kannada, elle fut plus tard traduite en sanskrit. En raison de son ancienneté millénaire et de sa vaste littérature, le kannada a été déclaré comme langue classique par le gouvernement indien en 2008, en même temps que le télougou.
JayatirthaSri Jayatirtha (), also known as Teekacharya () (1345 - 1388), was a Hindu philosopher, dialectician, polemicist and the sixth pontiff of Madhvacharya Peetha from (1365 – 1388). He is considered to be one of the most important seers in the history of Dvaita school of thought on account of his sound elucidations of the works of Madhvacharya. He is credited with structuring the philosophical aspects of Dvaita and through his polemical works, elevating it to an equal footing with the contemporary schools of thought.
MadhvaMadhva ou Madhvācārya (1238-1317 ou 1199-1278), également appelé Anandatirtha, Anandagiri ou Anandajnana, est un philosophe hindou, fondateur du système Dvaita qui est une des trois principales écoles du Vedānta, école qui reconnaît la dualité. Celle-ci appartient à la tradition philosophique astika, qui reconnaît l'autorité des Vedas. On attribue à Madhva la composition de trente-sept ouvrages dont la plupart sont des commentaires sur les textes de bases du Vedānta, le Mahābhārata et le Bhāgavata Purāṇa.
