He, however, admitted only the higher castes into his order, and cannot therefore be considered as the founder of the liberalising principle of vishnuism.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell
4. The Ramanandis Ramanand, the great prophet of vishnuism in northern India, and the real founder of the liberal doctrines of the cult, lived at Benares at the end of the fourteenth century, and is supposed to have been a follower of Ramanuj.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell
It asserts even more plainly than vishnuism that the teaching of the Vedas is too difficult for these latter days and even useless, and it offers to its followers new scriptures called Tantras and new ceremonies as all-sufficient.
"Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) An Historical Sketch"
Charles Eliot