Subodhini

(“Greatly enlightening”) A name given to
commentaries on various texts—presumably because of the commentary’s
ability to illuminate the text. The most
famous of these commentaries, to
which the name Subodhini is often
understood to refer, is the one by
Vallabhacharya (1479–1531) on the
Bhagavata Purana. The Bhagavata
Purana is one of the later sectarian
compendia known as puranas, and it is
the most important source for the
mythology of the god Krishna, whom
Vallabhacharya considered the Supreme
Being. Vallabhacharya’s Subodhini lays
out the basic doctrines of his religious
community, known as the Pushti Marg
because of their stress on god’s grace,
which they called pushti, meaning “that
which nourishes the soul.”