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vaishnava
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaishnava \Vaish"na*va\ (v[imac]sh"n[.a]*v[.a]), n. [Skr. vaish[.n]ava.] (Hindu Myth.) A worshiper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.
Wiktionary
n. A Hindu worshipper of the god Vishnu in any of his incarnations.
Usage examples of "vaishnava".
In a flutelike voice, he sang of the sacred writings, or Vedas, composed well before the first millennium bc, and of the catalogue of magical yajnas, sacrificial formulas, mantras, and rituals that the Vedic religion embodied, and of the many schools, sects, and religions that had developed through the centuries: Sankhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Vaishnavas, Shaivas, Shak-tas, all of which were preached and practised under the separate canopies of Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which in turn took their impetus from the original Vedic, changing and refining the basic precepts into a multiplicity of separate doctrines : Karma, avatar, samsara, dharma, trimurti, bhakti, maya.