•   Rajashekhara (10th century) was a Sanskrit poet, dramatist and critic.

•   He was the court poet of the Gurjara Pratiharas.

•   He wrote Kavyamimansa (a practical guide for poets that explains the elements and composition of a good poem) and Karpurmanjiri (a play written in Maharashtri Prakrit).

•   Vijnaneshwara was a prominent jurist of 12^th century India.

•   His wrote Mitakshara which dealt with inheritance, and is one of the most influential legal treatises in Hindu law.

•   Mitakshara is the treatise on Yajnavalkya Smriti.

•   Vijnaneshwara was born in Karnataka.

•   He lived in the court of king Vikramaditya 4^th (1076-1126), the king of Western Chalukya Empire.

•   He was a polymath and a prime minister from 1259 to 1274 C.E. in the regimes of Seuna Yadav Dynasty of Devagiri.

•   It ruled in the western and southern part of India.

•   He is also the creator of the Hemadpanti architecture.

•   Hemadri wrote the encyclopedic book about dharma, Chaturvarga Chintamani which contains, among other subjects, thousands of Vratas along with the modus operandi for performing them.

•   He wrote the commentary named Ayurveda Rasayan on Ayurvedic Samhita called Ashtanga Hrdayam, containing descriptions of various diseases and remedies for them.

•   A small historical book, Hemadpanti Bakhar is credited to him.

•   He standardized procedural parts of the state administration.

•   He was a 12^th century Indian Sanskrit scholar and writer of legal and religious treatises on Vaishnavism of early medieval period.

•   He was the earliest writer on smriti (law) from Bengal.

•   He is known for his three major works:

o  Kalaviveka is an exhaustive analysis of the auspicious kala (timings) for the performance of religious rites and ceremonies.

o  Vyavahara-Matrika or Nyayaratna-Matrika or Nyayamatrika has dealt with judicial procedures.

o  His magnum opus Dayabhaga has dealt with the laws of inheritance based on Manusmriti.