[Revised entry by Daniel Arnold on March 24, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, a Brahmanical proponent of the Pūrva Mīmāṃsā school who flourished around 660 ce, was among the most influential thinkers in the history of Indian philosophy. His significant philosophical contributions concern the full range of issues that follow from Mīmāṃsā’s constitutive focus, which is on interpreting the corpus of texts (the “Vedas”) that enjoin the ritual performances of Vedic religion. Virtually all…

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