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Vadakalai
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Sri Vaishnavism.
Vadakalai and Tenkalai denominations
The Sri Vaishnava tradition is classified into two major denominations called the Vadakalai ("northern art") and Tenkalai ("southern art"). The northern and southern denominations of Sri Vaishnavism refer respectively to Kanchipuram (the northern part of Tamil country) and Srirangam (the southern part of Tamil country and Kaveri river delta area where Ramanuja wrote his Vedanta treatises from). These denominations arose as a result of philosophical and theological divergences in the post-Ramanuja period.