Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.s6.7

c11.s6.7

The centre of another circle of learned scholars in the north¹ was the famous Svaidāyana Śaunaka, the champion of northern scholars, whose superiority was acknowledged by the great scholar of the Middle Country named Uddālaka who went to him to test his knowledge, just as the superiority of the great eastern scholar, Yājñavalkya, was admitted by him.