Vishnuswami was a

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

religious leader. He is primarily known for having started the

Rudra sampradaya In Hinduism, the Rudra Sampradaya is one of four Vaishnava sampradayas, a tradition of disciplic succession in the religion. Vaishnavism is distinguished from other schools of Hinduism by its primary worship of deities Vishnu and/or Krishna an ...

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Medieval Hindu religious leaders Vaishnavism 600 BC births {{Hindu-bio-stub Devotees in vishnu swami sampradaya 1)gyan dev 2)trilochan ji 3) vallabhachary ji Vallabhachary wrote anubhashya on bramh sutra Vishnu swami is founder acharya of his sampradaya and known as rudra sampradaya. He got rudra sampradaya parampara from

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. Afterwards it was called vishnuswami sampradaya. And when Vallabhachaya became Acharya its name changed to ushtimargor [vallabh sampraday. Vishnu swami continued his tradition by making bilvamangalacharya the next vishnu swami of sampradaya. According to legends, He told bilvamangal that you would not die until the god himself appears in this tradition. After a wait of 4000 years finally god appeared after the 100th yagna, He appeared as mahaprabhu vallabhacharya in 15th century. Vallabhacharya mahaprabhu was third vishnuswami of tradition. Today also this tradition is carried from generations to generations, in the lineage of vallabhacharya mahaprabhu. The present day Vishnuswami is the 16th descendant of Jagadguru shri vallabhacharya HH P.Pu shashthapithadhishwar Goswami shri Vallabhraiji Maharaj.