Acharya kumarila bhatta

Acharya kumarila bhatt a MIMAMSIC Philosopher who saved India from being buddhist supremacy

1. ACHARYA KUMARILA BHATTA
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PRESENTATION BY:-
ADITYA BULBULE(PA-05)

2. INTRODUCTION:-
KumārilaBhaṭṭawas aHinduphilosopher and a scholar
ofMimamsaphilosophy from earlymedieval India.
He was born in Assam in around 700 AD.
KumārilaBhaṭṭais sometimes regarded as an avatar of
Kumaraswamy, the son of Parvatiand Shiva.
The main purpose of this avatar was to protect the Vedas
which were dwindling away from the then India.
Vedas are and continue to remain to define India from
which the present day India has taken its shape, co-existing
along with many other religious beliefs.

3. INDIA IN 700 AD :-
India was ruled by king Harshavardhan
During his reign a Chinese Buddhist monk XUANZANG
came to India
XUANZANG was on a journey to spread Buddhism
King Harshavardhanwas strongly influenced by
XUANZANG
But this influence had a negative impact on vedic
literature
Everyone in Harshavardhan’skingdom was forced to
follow Buddhism and on the other hand the vedic
literature was considered author less and useless

4. HOW KUMARILA BHATTA SAVED
VEDIC LITERATURE
At a very young age kurmaila’slove for vedasbecame very
predominant and his convictions were very firm regarding the
importance of vedas
It is said that he mastered himself in the vedicliterature at the
age of 11
Kumārilawent to studyBuddhismatNalanda(the largest 4th-
century university in the world), with the aim of refuting
Buddhist doctrine in favour ofVedic religion
But he was expelled from the university when he protested
against his teacher (Dharmakirti) ridiculing the Vedic rituals

5. …
KumārilaBhaṭṭaleft Nalandaafter that and settled down in Prayag
(modern dayAllahabad).
Kumārilavisited many kingdoms and regionalitiesto debate with the
Buddhist pundits.
It was tradition at that time that whoever wins a debate in the King's
court, their philosophy and ideology would be accepted by the King and
by the subjects.
To prevent the further downfall of Vedic Sanskruti, KumārilaBhaṭṭahad
defeated many Buddhist pundits and saved the country from Buddhist
supremacy.
Later Kumariladecided to takeSamadhiby burning himself on a pile of
peanut shells, which is said to be the most torturous death, to free himself
from the sin of cheating his guru at Nalanda

6. KUMARILA MEETS ADI
SHANKARACHARYA
One medieval work on the life ofAdi
SHANKARACHARYA claims that Sankara
challenged Bhaṭṭato a debate on his deathbed.
Since he was in the process of burning himself
down he refused the alms and redirected him to
MandanaMishra
The following day Mandanaand Sankaradebate
with Mandana’swife UbhayaBharatias
moderator.
After several days of debate though mandana
gave a healthy fight he lost the debate
Later shankaracharyamade him his one of the
four disciples

7. WORKS:-
Shlokavartika
Tantravartika
Tuptika
Kataoka

8. Thank You…!!