Appayya Dikshita

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Appayya Dikshita (IAST '), 1520–1593 CE, was a performer of yajñas as well as an expositor and practitioner of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy along with the propagation of Shiva Advaita .

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Sri Appayya Dikshita lived during a period of great cultural and intellectual efflorescence in South India, roughly corresponding to the European Renaissance. He was a contemporary of Shakespeare. The Vijayanagar Empire and nearby principalities like Vellore, Karvetnagar, and Chittoor provided political stability and patronage, encouraging a flourishing of Hindu philosophy, art, and literature. Religious debates replaced the earlier violence between Saivite and Vaishnavite factions. Provided by Wikipedia