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Madhvacharya (IAST: Madhvācārya; pronounced [mɐdʱʋaːˈtɕaːrjɐ]; 1199–1278 CE or 1238–1317 CE), and also known as Purna Prajna (IAST: Pūrṇa-Prajña) and Ānanda Tīrtha, was an Indian philosopher, theologian and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta.
Madhavacharya (born 1296?—died 1386?, Sringeri, Kashmir, India) was a Hindu statesman and philosopher. He lived at the court of Vijayanagar, a southern Indian kingdom. Madhavacharya became an ascetic in 1377 and was thereafter known as Vidyaranya.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sri Madhvacharya (1238-1317), also known as Sri AnandatIrtha and Sri Purnaprajna is the founder Philosopher of tattvavAda, more popularly known as the Dvaita School of Vedanta. Born in a small village called Pajaka, near Udupi, in Karnataka State (India), he took monkhood at a tender age of ten years.
Madhva (1238-1317) was a 13th-century Hindu thinker who advocated a dualist view of reality, identifying brahman with Visnu and rejecting the non-dualist and qualified non-dualist positions. He based his philosophy on the Vedic scriptures, realist epistemology, and devotional theology.
Learn about the unique school of thought established by Madhvacharya, a prominent figure in Indian philosophy. He argued for a dualism that distinguishes between the individual soul and the supreme being, and advocated for a theistic approach that celebrates diversity and devotion.
Madhva (born c. 1199 or 1238 ce, near Udipi, Karnataka, India—died c. 1278 or 1317, Udipi) was a Hindu philosopher, exponent of Dvaita (“ Dualism ”; belief in a basic difference in kind between God and individual souls). His followers are called Madhvas.
Madhvacharya was born in 1238 at Pajaka-kshetra, a small village situated five miles southeast of Udupi, a small town on the western coast of South India. His philosophy and writings have distinguished him as one of India’s greatest spiritual teachers. His teachings were wholly theistic.
