Deccan & Peninsular India
Philosophers of Deccan & Peninsular India
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Agastya
1500 BCE – 1200 BCE
Southern peninsular India (traditional)
Vedic and pan-Indian sage whose broad tradition links hymnic authority, ascetic discipline, grammar, natural knowledge, and religious philosophy.
Bhartṛhari
450 CE – 510 CE
Ujjayinī region (Malwa)
Indian grammarian-philosopher from the Ujjayinī/Malwa tradition whose Vākyapadīya, sphoṭa theory, śabda-brahman metaphysics, sentence-meaning analysis, linguistic cognition, and discipline of speech shaped Sanskrit philosophy of language, ontology, epistemology, logic, and religious thought.
Nagarjuna
150 CE – 250 CE
South India, often associated with Andhra
Madhyamaka Buddhist philosopher of emptiness, dependent origination, two truths, svabhava critique, catuskoti, Middle Way reasoning, and Prajnaparamita reception.