[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021) › c11.s15.2 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s15.2 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s15.2 - **Language:** English ### [c11.s15.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s15.2) This is the richest period in the history of traditional Sanskrit scholarship and it is also a period of most pathetic degeneration of the \*paṇḍit\*. During the nineteenth and the early twentieth century the most celebrated savants of traditional Sanskrit scholarship — the Mahāmahopāddhyāyas — Bal Shastri, Shiv Kumar Shastri, Gangadhar Shastri, Damodar Shastri, Ramakrishna Shastri (Tatya Shastri), etc. registered their presence in regular \*śāstrārthas\* that were held at Kāśī. Mahāmahopādhyāya Pt. Ramavatar Sharma entered into debate on Western philosophy with Dr Venice, a wellknown European Sanskritist. A team from Australia is reported to have some recording of this occasion.¹⁰⁵ Ramavatar Sharma is said to have defeated two of his \*gurus\* in \*śāstrārtha\* during this time. Sharma quit the service at the Hindu College as he dissented against the orders of a dress code for the teachers. He was appointed at Patna University where Rajendra Prasad, who would become the first President of India, was his student. - [Previous: c11.s15.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s15.1) - [Next: c11.s15.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s15.3) - [Up: c11.s15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s15.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c11.s15.2) · Pramāṇa