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Appayya Dikshit was born at Adayatppalam near Kane ja the Kanya month of Kali 4654 (A, D. 1554). He w a Bharadvaja of the Apatamba School. He was learned all] the arts. In the earlier part of his life he lived at Velio, wilder the pratronage of Chinna Bomma Bhupala. Later 001 was invited to the court of the Penukonda ruler Venkatadei (1586-1613 A. D.). In the last year of his life he visited rt Paiidya country to settle some sectarian disputes. He vras th tutor in Vedanta to the famous Bhottoji Dikshit. In his lin< age he belonged to a race of sacrificial priests. He was th first scholar that placed the Srikantha school of philosophy o a firm basis. He was best in the Purva and Uttaramimamsa, His eleven sons were well-read and alive at his death. Hi end was at Chidambaram in 1626 A. D., at the age of seventy two. He is the reputed author of 104 works/ the range o which covers poetry, dialectics and philosophy. He is th best commentator on Vedanta Desika's works. His Chitm mimamsa is a disquisition on the nature of Alankaras and run to the end of AtisayoktL His Vritti-vartikam is a treatise on thi three modes of signification. His Kuvalayananda is a stafcdan work on the subject of the figures of speech. It is designed as a commentary on Jayadevds Chandraloka (about the loth century). The illustrations are not his own but the treatise is elementary for beginners and scientific for longer commentaries, His Vairagya-sataka forms the last work of his life and reflects best the santa sentiment.
Devesvara was the son of Vagbhata, once a Malva< ptime-minister. His Kavikalpalata. is a short work on the poetic art written about the middle of the sixteenth century*. He also composed the Chandrakalapa^ to which he refers his readers for detail.
Le to the sage- is too great to be infringed or criticised. His brother was Dhanika, whose Avalaka, a commentary on the Dasarupa and v Kavyanirnaya^ an independent treatise on rhetoric, have come down to us.