Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s5.19

c8.s5.19

I have already referred to the long history of scathing debates between the Advaitins and the Mādhvas (see Chap. 2). The Advaita Vedānta views world as *mithyā* (false) which is *anirvacanīya* (indescribable), and is not the locus of being-not-being (*sadasattva-anadhikaraṇarūpaṁ*). Here *sadasattva-anadhikaraṇarūpaṁ* signifies absolute absence of being and absolute absence of non-being. It is here that the Mādhvas apply their most pricking clinchers for goading the Advaitins by bringing out the impossibilities of the concept of absolute absence of being and absolute absence of non-being.