Mīmāṃsā

Mīmāṃsā drew on Jaimini's Mīmāṃsā Sūtra, dated to roughly the third or second century BCE, to interpret Vedic ritual obligations. Kumārila Bhaṭṭa and Prabhākara developed influential branches around the seventh century.

In the sixteenth century Appayya Dīkṣita argued that the Mīmāṃsā and Vedānta sūtras could not form a single unified work. In the seventeenth century Āpadeva wrote an introductory treatise on Mīmāṃsā.