Ramanujacharya, the leading expounder of "Vishishtadvaita", spent many years in Melkote. He is a speaker and expounder of Chinook Jargon. Advaita Vedanta existed prior to Adi Shankara but found in him its most influential expounder. He was a Reader, Preacher, Expounder of the Law, "Mohel" and "Shochet". In ancient Sanskrit literature, she is known as a "brahmavadini" (an expounder of the "Veda"). He has therefore been called the "prophet" and "prince" and most eminent expounder of pantheism.