Appayya Dikshita, the great Smarta polymath of the Tamil country, dies after writing across Vedanta, poetics, and Shaiva devotion; his works model the Smarta ideal of learning held inside devotion to Shiva.
Tagged: Hindu Smarta Tradition
The Event
- Date
- 1593 (exact)
- Era
- Medieval; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Vellore region; today Tamil Nadu, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Smarta Tradition
- Key figures
- Appayya Dikshita
- Key texts
- Sivarkamanidipika
Primary Sources
- Appayya Dikshita, Sivarkamanidipika
Secondary Sources
- Sharma, A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy (Motilal Banarsidass, 1960)
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
Provenance: HIST-0324; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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