Śivādvaita Vedānta

Śivādvaita Vedānta is the name of a Sanskrit‐language school of nondualist Vedānta that centers on Śiva as the conceptual and semantic equivalent ofbrahman. Śrīkaṇṭha Śivācārya (c. fourteenth to fifteenth century) laid down the basis of its theology in his Śaiva commentary on theBrahmasūtras, theBrahmamīmāṃsābhāṣya. In the sixteenth century, the celebrated scholar Appaya Dīkṣita promoted Śrīkaṇṭha's teachings in a series of original works that successfully established Śivādvaita Vedānta as a major school of Vedānta in South India. In the wake of Appaya's work, Vīraśaiva scholars writing in Sanskrit developed their own school of Śaiva Vedānta during the early modern period: Śaktiviśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta.