Madhvacharya, revered as the principal exponent of Dvaita Vedanta, is understood to have lived approximately from 1238 to 1317 CE. These dates situate him firmly within a period of intense philosophical and theological activity in the Indian subcontinent, when many schools of Vedanta were articulating and refining their distinctive positions. His lifetime thus marks a significant phase in the unfolding of Vedantic thought, in which dualistic interpretations of the relationship between the individual soul and the Supreme gained a powerful and enduring voice.