Excerpt from The Life of Ramanujacharya: The Exponent of the Visishtadvaita Philosophy God so manifest was their household Deity. One day, the father, son (nfithamuni) and grandson went to the Shrine, and submissively petitioned of Mannanftr to permit them to under take a pilgrimage to the North of India, where they were anxious to visit all those Holy Shrines to Himself, or at which He had incarnated2 in various forms, in order to accomplish the threefold object of saving the good, punishing the wicked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.