any of the three brothers of Rāma [but applicable esp. to Lakṣmaṇa].

a great sage-philosopher (1027-1137) who founded the school of Viśiṣṭādvaita, which propounds that the individual soul emerges from the Supreme Being and is eternal and the same as Supreme Being in essence, but retains its self-consciousness and separateness while enjoying a close communion with the Supreme Being.

a follower of this philosophy.