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Vedanta Desika

Type Figure Region South India Time 1268–1370 Also known as Desika

Vedanta Desika (1268–1370) was a great Sri Vaishnava scholar and poet from Srirangam, of the Visishtadvaita school in the Ramanuja tradition, renowne…

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  1. 1301–1310Srirangam · Tamil NaduBetween 1301 and 1310, when Desika was in his thirties, he taught and wrote around the Ranganatha temple, continuing to compose philosophical and devotional works in Sanskrit and Tamil. During this phase he deepened Visishtadvaita's response to Advaita and the emerging Dvaita schools; his treatises and verses were widely copied among South Indian scholars, laying an important foundation for later Sri Vaishnava thought.

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