Shankara's Digvijaya (victory tour) represents not military but intellectual conquest. Between ages 16 and 32, he crisscrossed the Indian subcontinent, traveling thousands of kilometers on foot. He moved from Varanasi to the Himalayas (Badrinath, Kedarnath), down to Kerala, across to Karnataka (Sringeri, Gokarna), up to Gujarat (Dwaraka), across to Odisha (Puri), and finally to Kashmir where he ascended the legendary Sarvajna Peetham (Throne of Omniscience) at Sharada Temple. Along this circuit, he defeated Buddhist scholars, Jain philosophers, Mimamsa ritualists, Samkhya dualists, Nyaya logicians, and various tantric schools in formal philosophical debates. More important than victories was what he left behind: a network of teachers, mathas (monasteries), reformed temple practices, and a unified philosophical framework that would endure for over twelve centuries.