Among the following, who was not a proponent of bhakti cult ?

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Q: 150 (IAS/2010)
Among the following, who was not a proponent of bhakti cult ?

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Nagarjuna was not a proponent of bhakti cult. He was a Buddhist philosopher and founder of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism. The other three, Tukaram, Tyagaraja, and Vallabhacharya, were all proponents of the bhakti movement in India.