![]() Dikshitar travelled widely, entering into philosophical disputations and controversaries in many centres of learning. ![]() He completed the fourteen Vidyas while he was quite young. Appayya studied the Hindu scriptures under his Guru, Rama Kavi. Acharya Dikshitar or Acchan Dikshitar was the younger brother of Appayya. Appaya had the name Vinayaka Subramanya after the Namakarana or naming ceremony took place. Appayya Dikshitar was born as Vinayaga Subramanian in Adayapalam, near Arani in the North Arcot district, in the Krishna Paksha of the Kanya month of Pramateecha Varsha under the Uttara Proushthapada constellation of the Hindu calendar. Appayya Dikshitar (IAST Appayya Dīkṣitar), 1520–1593 CE, was a performer of yajñas as well as an expositor and practitioner of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy but however, with a focus on Shiva or Siva Advaita.
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