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'''Apa-deva''' ([[IAST]]: Āpadeva) was a 17th-century Indian scholar, who wrote ''Mimamsa-nyaya-prakasha'', a [[Sanskrit]]-language treatise on the [[purva mimamsa]] tradition.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Apadeva probably flourished in early 17th century. He was a great-grandson of [[Eknath|Ekanatha]], who was likely not same as the 16th-century saint Eknath. His grand-father was also named Apa-deva, and his father was Ananta-deva.<ref name="SCB"/><br />
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Apadeva followed the [[Kumarila Bhatta|Bhatta]] school of the [[mimamsa]] philosophy, and wrote ''Mimamsa-nyaya-prakasha'' ([[IAST]]: ''Mīmāṃsā-nyāya-prakāśa''; also known as ''Apadevi''), a guidebook for [[purva mimamsa]].<ref name="SCB"/><br />
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Apadeva's son was named Ananta-deva (like Apadeva's father), and composed ''Smrti-kaustubha'', which is the main source of information about Apadeva.<ref name="SCB">{{cite book |author=Sures Chandra Banerji |title=A Companion to Sanskrit Literature |edition=Second |year=1989 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=9788120800632 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkOAEdIsdUsC |pages=12–13 }}</ref> It is not clear if Apadeva's son Ananta is same as Ananta Bakarista, who wrote ''Nakshatra-sattrahautra''. The grandson of Apadeva's son Ananta was also named Ananta-deva (fl. c. 1675), and composed a text on astrology, titled ''Nakshatra-sattreshti-rayoga'' or ''Nakshtreshti-nirupana''.<ref name="CESS1">{{cite book |editor=David Pingree |editor-link=David Pingree |title=Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Series A |volume=1 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |year=1970 |url=https://archive.org/details/PingreeCESS/Pingree_CESS_A1_1970/ |page=41}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* ''[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.264213 Mīmāṃsā Nyāya Prakāśa]'', English translation by Franklin Edgerton (1929)<br />
* ''[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.424528/page/n5/mode/2up Mīmāṃsā-nyāya-prakāśa]'', Sanskrit text with commentary by Vasudev Shastri Abhyankar (1937)<br />
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[[Category:17th-century Indian scholars]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male writers]]</div>Prabhash Sharma