Śālikanātha was a

Mīmāṃsā ''Mīmāṁsā'' (Sanskrit: मीमांसा) is a Sanskrit word that means "reflection" or "critical investigation" and thus refers to a tradition of contemplation which reflected on the meanings of certain Vedic texts.

philosopher ( Pūrva Mīmāṃsā) of roughly 800 AD, a follower of

Prabhākara Prabhākara (active c. 6th century) was an Indian philosopher-grammarian in the Mīmāṃsā tradition of Kerala. Probable date Hariswamin's commentary on Shatapatha Brahmana which dates to 638 CE discusses the doctrine of Prabhākara's fol ...

(6th century) and an opponent of the Bhāṭṭa school started by

Kumārila Bhaṭṭa Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (fl. roughly 700) was a Hindu philosopher and a scholar of Mimamsa school of philosophy from early medieval India. He is famous for many of his various theses on Mimamsa, such as ''Mimamsaslokavarttika''. Bhaṭṭa was a ...

in the 7th century. Śālikanātha is believed to have written the Prakaraṇapañcikā, which is one of the very few texts available to us to study the Prābhākara school of Pūrva Mīmāṃsā. Śālikanātha also wrote Ṛjuvimalāpañcikā and Dīpaśikhāpañcikā commentaries on Prabhākara.Paolo Visigalli 2014, p. 47.

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*, ''The Prābhākara School of Pūrva Mīmāmsā'', Motilal Banarsidass, 1978. * K.T. Pandurangi, ''Prakaraṇapañcikā with an Exposition in English'', Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2004 {{DEFAULTSORT:Salikanatha 8th-century Indian philosophers Atheist philosophers Hindu philosophers and theologians Indian Sanskrit scholars Medieval Sanskrit grammarians