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Life

Portrait of Jaimini
Jaimini

c. 3rd century BCE

Indian

He built a whole philosophy around action and the authority of the word, asking what it means for a duty to bind.

Portrait of Badarayana
Badarayana

c. 2nd century BCE

Indian

He gathered the teachings of the Upanishads into the threads that became Vedanta, India's most enduring philosophy.

Connection

Jaimini the two halves of Mimamsa Badarayana — Jaimini's inquiry into ritual duty and Badarayana's inquiry into Brahman were treated as the earlier and later halves of one investigation, each citing the other, though they pull in different directions.

Shared Places

Varanasi

Ideas

DutyFaith & Reason
Being

Words

“Now, therefore, the inquiry into duty.”

— Jaimini

“Now, therefore, the inquiry into Brahman.”

— Badarayana

Key Moments

c. 3rd century BCE

Born in the Vedic Age

c. 3rd century BCE

The Mimamsa Sutras

c. 295 BCE

Duty Without Reward

c. 290 BCE

The Eternal Word

c. 2nd century BCE

Born by the Ganges

c. 2nd century BCE

The Brahma Sutras

c. 195 BCE

Self and Absolute

c. 190 BCE

The Vedanta Debates

Works

The Mimamsa Sutras

The Brahma Sutras

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Volume I · Ancient Greece · 624-262 BCE