The Vaishnavas are the largest denomination in India and have numerous subsects. Devotion to Lord Vishnu and his avatars (especially Krishna and Rama) is their keynote. In addition to the Veda hold particularly sacred Bhagavad Gita, the Bahagavata Purana (which contains many enchanting stories about Krishna), and various compendiums or religious lore, such as Vishnu Samhita. There is also ecstatic devotional poetry such as the erotically charged Gita Govinda, which compares a devotee's yearning for God with a young woman's intoxication with her lover.
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