Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c14.32

c14.32

From time to time the Vedāntist school of Śaṅkara produced scholars of eminence and repute who wrote works and expounded the Advaita doctrines. They had also controversies with the exponents of the other schools of philosophy. Tradition affirms that Vidyāraṇya had a philosophical dispute with Akṣōbhya Muni, a disciple of Madhva and an exponent of the Dvaita philosophy. Appayya Dīkṣita, a great scholar and philosopher who flourished in the sixteenth century, was a controversialist and had disputes on questions of high philosophy with Vijayīndra Tīrtha of the Madhva maṭha at Kumbakōṇam.