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Thinker · c. 700 CE

Prabhākara

Prabhākara

Prabhākara developed the second major Mīmāṃsā orientation, offering distinctive accounts of knowledge, linguistic meaning, obligation, and error in commentary on Śabara.

Intellectual setting

The Prābhākara position emerged from close commentary on shared foundational texts, not from a separate canon.

Key ideas

Prābhākara lineage

Later adherents took their bearings from his interpretations rather than Kumārila’s Bhāṭṭa line.

Knowledge and action

His analysis of apprehension and obligation shaped enduring Mīmāṃsā disputes.

Legacy

Its disagreement with Kumārila supplied a durable structure for Mīmāṃsā’s internal philosophical diversity.