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Pancharatra
Ancient Indian religious movement around Narayana-Vishnu (Vaishnavism)
Pancharatra
Pancharatra (IAST: Pāñcarātra) was a theistic movement in Hinduism that originated in the late 3rd-century BCE around Narayana and the various avatars and forms of Vishnu. It later merged with the Bhagavata tradition and contributed to the development of Vaishnavism. The Pancharatra movement's Sanskrit treatises, the Pancharatra Samhitas (also called the Pancharatra Agamas) number more than 200 texts and are influential across various Vaishnava movements, including the Madhva Sampradaya or Brahma Sampradaya of Madhvacharya and the Sri Vaishnava Sampradaya of Ramanuja. The term Pancharatra literally means five nights (pañca: five, rātra: nights) in Sanskrit, though the name has multiple traditional and scholarly interpretations. The term first occurs in the Shatapatha Brahmana (Book 13), where the highest Purusha (Narayana) resolves to become all things and pervade all beings through the primordial Purushamedha yajna, known as the Pancharatra. The Shandilya Sutras (~100 CE) are the earliest...
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