Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s5.t13.4

c6.s5.t13.4

Durveka Miśra, who flourished between the last quarter of the tenth and the first half of the eleventh century CE, wrote a sub-commentary on Arcaṭa’s commentary on *Hetubindu*. The appellation *miśra* added after his name indicates that he must have been a brāhmaṇa and belonged to Mithilā. (Perhaps from a poor family as the very name Durveka is suggestive of.) He became a disciple of Jitāri, the head of Vikramaśilā University.¹²⁵ He had written five more works as referred in the sub-commentary — *Dharmottarapradīpa*, *Svayūthyavicāra*, *Viśeṣākhyāna*, *Kṣṇabhaṅgasiddhiḥ* and *Catuḥśatī*.