Timeline of Philosophers - India (up to Indian Independence)

Uddālaka, Yājñavalkya, Śāṇḍilya, etc. ca. 7th – 6th cent. BCE
Mahāvīra Jina ca. 599 – 527 BCE
The Buddha 566 – 486 / 480 – 400 BCE
Payāsi, Makkali Gosāla, Ajita Kesakambala, etc. ca. 5th – 4th cent. BCE
Kauṭilya c.370 – 283 BCE
Moggalaputra Tissa ca. 240 BCE
"Vyāsa" 200BCE – 200CE
Patañjali ca. 150 BCE
Jaimini w.250BCE – 50CE
Bādarāyaṇa w.250BCE – 50CE
Kaṇāda / Ulūka w.0 – 250
Gautama / Akṣapāda w.150 – 250
Nāgārjuna w.100 – 250
"Manu" w.100 – 300
Āryadeva w.180 – 280
"Kundakunda" w.200 – 400
Śabara w.200 – 400
Patañjali w.325 – 425
Īśvarakṛṣṇa ca. 400
Asaṅga ca. 340 – 420
Vasubandhu ca. 350 – 420
Umāsvati ca. 400
Buddhaghosa w. 400 – 500
"Tiruvaḷḷuvar" w. 400 – 600
Vātsyāyana ca. 450
Bhartṛhari ca. 450
Dignāga 480 – 540
Praśastapāda 530
Cīttalai Cāttaṉār w. 500 – 600
Bhāviveka ca. 500 – 570
Sthiramati ca. 500 – 570
Samantabhadra 530 – 590
Candrakīrti 600?
Uddyotakara 540 – 600
Kumārila Bhaṭṭa 540 – 600
Dharmakīrti 550 – 610
Prabhākara (“Guru”) ca. 600
Śāntideva w. 690 – 790
Maṇḍana Miśra ca. 700
Siddhasena Divākara ca. 700
"Bṛhaspati" (Purandara?) w. 700 – 800
Śaṅkara (-ācārya) fl. 710
Akalaṅka c. 720 – 780
Śāntarakṣita 725 – 788
Haribhadra Sūri fl. 770
Uṃveka 730 – 790
Dharmottara 740 – 800
Kamalaśīla 740 – 795
Jayarāśi ca. 800 – 840
Bhaṭṭa Udbhaṭa ca. 850
Bhaṭṭa Jayanta fl. 880 – 890
Utpaladeva c.925 – 975
Bhāsarvajña ca. 950
Vācaspati Miśra fl. 960
Anuruddha 10th cent ?
Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha ca. 950 – 1000
Śrīdhara fl. 990
Jñānaśrīmitra ca. 975 – 1025
Abhinavagupta 950 – 1020
Udayana (-ācārya) ca. 1000
Ratnakīrti 990 – 1050
Vādi Devasūri 11th c.
Prabhācandra 980 – 1065
Pārthasārathi Miśra 1050 – 1120
Rāmānuja 1017 – 1137
Hemacandra 1088 – 1173
Vijñāneśvara w. 1100 – 1200
Śrīharṣa w. 1100 – 1200
Vasiṣṭha 1200
Citsukha 1225 – 1284
Madhva (-ācārya) 1238 – 1317
Veṅkaṭanātha [“Vedānta Deśika”] 1269 – 1370
Gaṅgeśa (-upādhyāya) ca. 1325
Vardhamāna ca. 1350
Mādhava Vidyāraṇya 1297 – 1388
Ceṇṇibhaṭṭa ca. 1350
Jayatīrtha 1343 – 1388
"Kapila" w. 1300 – 1500
Śaṃkara Miśra 1430
Vācaspati Miśra II 1440
Pragalbha 1470
Jayadeva/Pakṣadhara Miśra 1470
Raghunātha Śiromaṇi ca. 1460 – 1540
Vyāsatīrtha 1460 – 1539
Rūpa Gosvāmin 1470 – 1550
Jīva Gosvāmin 1560
Appayya Dīkṣita 1520 – 1593
Madhusūdana Sarasvatī w. 1540 – 1640
Vijñānabhikṣu 1550 – 1600
Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita 1590?
Nīlakaṇṭḥa Caturdhara ca.1600 – 1650
Rāmabhadra Sārvabhauma fl. 1610s
Muḥibballāh Illāhābādī 1587 – 1648
Jagadīśa Tarkālaṃkāra fl. 1600 – 1620
Mullā Maḥmūd al-Jawnpūrī d. 1652
Dārā Śikūh 1615 – 1659
Khwāja Khwurd d. 1663
Jayarāma Nyāyapañcānana fl. 1650s
Gadādhara Bhaṭṭācārya ca. 1604 – 1709
Raghudeva Nyāyālaṃkāra fl. 1650s
Dārā Shikūh d. 1659
Yaśovijaya Gaṇi 1624 – 1688
Muḥibballāh al-Bihārī d. 1707
Mahādeva Puṇatāmakara fl. 1670 – 96
Ḥabīb Allāh Patnah-ī d. 1728
Kamāluddīn Sihālwī d. 1760
Abd Alī Baḥr al-Ulūm d. 1810
Rāmamohana Raya 1772 – 1833
Hiralal Haldar 1865 – 1942
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1869 – 1948
Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya 1875 – 1949
Ramachandra Dattatrya Ranade 1886 – 1957
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 1891 – 1956
Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
Anukulchandra Mukerji 1888 – 1968
Mian Mohammed Sharif 1893 – 1965
Ghanshamdas Rattanmal Malkani 1892 – 1977
Ras Vihari Das 1897 – 1976

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Dates are AD unless otherwise specified.

 

Abbreviations:

cent. = century

d. = died

fl. = flourished

ca.= circa ("approximately")