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Appayya Dikshita
Indian philosopher · Academics · Lived 1520 to 1593 · aged 73
Appayya Dīkṣita was a prominent South Indian philosopher and scholar associated with the school of Advaita Vedanta and a theologian of Shaivism. While he is widely remembered as an influential preceptor of the Advaita tradition, he was historically rooted in the Śivādvaita school as its most prominent representative.
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A 1580 copper plate inscription attributed to Śivappa Nāyaka of Tañjāvūr describes him as the "sole emperor of Śaiva Advaita" (śaivādvaitaikasāmrājya). He was a highly prolific polymath whose works spanned dozens of treatises on Śaiva and Advaita metaphysics, Mīmāṃsā scriptural hermeneutics, and alaṅkāra poetic theory, while also composing numerous volumes of devotional poetry and a ritual manual for the daily worship of Shiva.
