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 |