Vandin

{{Short description|Acharya at Ancient Mithila University}}{{Related|Kahoda}}

{{Infobox religious biography

| religion = Hinduism

| name = Vandin

| honorific prefix = Acharya

| native_name = वंदी/बंदी

| native_name_lang = sa

| native name lang = Sanskrit

| alias = Bandi and Vandi

| other_names = Vandi

| home_town = Videha

| region = Mithila region

| father = Lord Varuna

| alma_mater = Ancient Mithila University

| footnotes = Royal Acharya at the court of King Janaka in Mithila Kingdom

| known_for = * Institution of the punishment called as "Jala Samadhi" for the defeated scholars in the Shastrarthas

• Shastrartha with Acharya Kahoda
• Shastrartha with Ashtavakra

}}

Vandin was a royal Acharya at court of King Janaka in the Mithila Kingdom.{{Cite book |last=Mukerjee |first=Radhakamal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hL-0qeeuVVIC |title=Aṣṭāvakragītā (the Song of the Self Supreme): The Classical Text of Ātmādvaita by Aṣṭāvakra |date=2000 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |isbn=978-81-208-1367-0 |language=en}} Some documents write his name as Vandi or Bandi.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=af1qFbouaVMC&q=bandi+and+ashtavakra |title=The Mahabharata: Sections 33 to 44 |date=July 2012 |publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-14-310015-7 |language=en}} He was a wise pundit, who defeated many Vedic scholars in Shastrarthas held at the court of the King Janaka in Mithila.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oSYMiNqdP8IC |title=Sākshātkāra |date=2006 |publisher=Ma. Pra. Śāsana Sāhitya Parishad |pages=192 |language=hi}}{{Cite book |last=Mazumdar |first=Subash |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=omspAAAAYAAJ |title=Who is who in the Mahabharata |date=1988 |publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan |pages=26, 38, 137 |language=en}} But later he was also defeated by the great Indian philosopher Ashtavakra.{{Cite book |last=Tripathi |first=Rampratap |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qKsuAAAAMAAJ |title=Purāṇoṃ kī amara kahānīyām̐ |date=1959 |publisher=Sāhitya Bhavana |pages=175 |language=hi}}{{Cite book |last=Śukla |first=Amaranātha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VP4MAAAAIAAJ |title=Bhāratīya saṃskr̥ti kathā kośa |date=1997 |publisher=Śubhakāmanā |pages=40 |language=hi}}