Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s2.5

Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s2.5

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c5.s2.5

It is interesting to note that voices of dissent were raised in the very tradition of Vedānta against the caste system. While Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja and even Madhva in their *bhāṣyas* agreed with the injunctions of Bādarāyaṇa in *Apaśūdrādhikaraṇa*²¹ on denying the knowledge of *Brahman* to the lower castes, Rāmānuja, Rāmānanda and several medieval saints, preaching their philosophy, stood against the caste system.

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Brahmasūtra — Bādarāyaṇa, Sanskrit