Pushtimarg

A Vaishnavite devotional cult that revolves around the worship of the Hindu deity Krishna as a child, in the form of Shrinathji. It was founded in the early sixteenth century by the saint Vallabhacharya and largely centred around the Shrinathji Temple in Nathdwara, Rajasthan.

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