Vishnuism

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[vish-noo-iz-uhm] / ˈvɪʃ nuˌɪz əm /

noun

1. a less common variant of Vaishnavism.

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Example Sentences

By his side in this later time stands his rival Çiva, the chief figure in a sect or system which shared with Vishnuism the devotion of the later Hindus.

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The idea that the two systems were incompatible obviously never occurred to the writers of the inscriptions and Buddhism was not regarded as more distinct from Śivaism and Vishnuism than these from one another.

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A limiting date to the antiquity of Śivaism and Vishnuism, as their cults may be called, is furnished by Buddhist literature, at any rate for north-eastern India.

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In another region, probably in the west, grew up the monotheism of the Bhâgavatas, which was the parent of Vishnuism.

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It is here that Vishnuism and Çivaism are found as fully developed sectarian beliefs, accepted by Brahmanism with more or less distrust, and in more or less fulness of faith.

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