[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) › c5.s13.2 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s13.2 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s13.2 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s13.2) Mādhava in his \*Śaṅkaradigvijaya\* describes a debate between Bādarāyaṇa and Śaṅkarācārya. The former wants to test the scholarship of the \*bhāṣyakāra\* and comes to discuss the interpretations of various aphorisms of his own text with Śaṅkara in disguise. The legend seems to have its genesis in \*Śāṅkarabhāṣya\* itself, as in some of the places, Śaṅkarācārya argues with the author of \*Brahmasūtra\*. - [Previous: c5.s13.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s13.1) - [Next: c5.s13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s13.3) - [Up: c5.s13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s13) ## Cites (3) - [Brahmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.vedanta.brahmasutra-works.brahmasutra) — Bādarāyaṇa, Sanskrit - [Śaṅkaradigvijaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.historical.sankaravijaya.sankaradigvijaya) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit - [Brahmasūtra Śāṅkarabhāṣya (Śaṅkara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.sastra.adhikarana.brahmasutrasankarabhasya) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s13.2) · Pramāṇa