Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya, 1977 - Stamp, First Day Cover, Brochure



A stamp in the denomination of 100P, an FDC and brochure were released on 14.04.1977 to commemorate Mahaprabhu Sri Vallabhacarya. 
Śrī Vallabhācārya belonged to a Telugu Brāhmaṇa family of Andhra Pradesh. His ancestors, Yajñanārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa and Gaṇapati Bhaṭṭa were Vedic scholars and Śrautins (performers of Somayāgas) of high repute. They had a prophetic vision that the Lord himself would take an avatāra (incarnation) in his family. Lakṣmaṇa Bhaṭṭa had completed performance of 100 Somayāgas and as a result, Vallabhācārya was born as the second son of Lakṣmaṇa Bhaṭṭa and Yallammagāru. He underwent Vedic and śāstraic studies according to the family traditions and became a full-fledged scholar and later founded the the Puṣtimārga (Bhāgavata Sampradāya) which is known as Śuddhādvaita-darśana.

Vallabhācārya composed a number of books in Sanskrit, some of which are listed below.

Anubhaṣya or Brahmasūtrānubhāṣya 
Tattvārthadīpa-nibandhaḥ 
Subodhinī-Commentary on Śrīmad-Bhāgavata-Mahāpurāṇam (Cantos 1, 2, 3 and 10 only are available)

Ṣodaśa-granthas:

Śrī-yamunāṣtakam
Bāla-bodhaḥ
Siddhānta-muktāvalī
Puṣti-pravāha-maryādā-bhedaḥ 
Siddhānta-rahasyaḥ
Navaratnaḥ
Antaḥ-karaṇaḥ-prabodhaḥ 
Viveka-dhairyāśrayaḥ
Śrīkṛṣṇāśrayaḥ
Catuḥślokī
Bhakti-vardhinī 
Jala-bhedaḥ
Pañca-padyāni
Sannyāsa-nirṇayaḥ
Nirodha-lakṣanam: 
Sevā-phalam

Pātrāvalambanam (?)
Madhurāṣtakam 
Gāyatrī-bhāṣyam, 
Puruṣottama-sahasranāma-stotram 

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