maDva m. N. of the founder of a sect of Vaiṣṇava s in the south of India (he was a Kanarese Brāhman otherwise called Ānanda-tīrtha , Bhagavat - pāda or Madhu , said to have been born about 1200; his doctrine is commonly called Dvaita , ‘Duality’, in opposition to the A-dvaita , ‘Nonduality’, of the great Vedāntist Śaṃkarācārya , and his sect are called Mādhva s), RTL. 130 &c.