Mīmāṃsā-sūtra
Kāśī (Varanasi) · -250
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Jaimini
Jaimini
250 BCE
author of the Mīmāṃsā-sūtra; commonly placed c. 300–200 BCE, disputed
Jaimini founded the Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā school with his Mīmāṃsā-sūtra, a systematic treatise on the exegesis of the Vedic ritual portion (karma-kāṇḍa) and the nature of dharma. Mīmāṃsā prized the eternality of the Veda and the binding force of its injunctions, and its hermeneutics deeply shaped all later Hindu textual interpretation, including Vedānta. Tradition links Jaimini and Bādarāyaṇa as pupil and teacher (and they cite each other in their respective sūtras), with Jaimini emphasizing ritual action and Bādarāyaṇa emphasizing knowledge. His date is uncertain, conventionally placed around the 3rd–2nd c. BCE.
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Jaimini’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.