[1] Abhinava-Gada consists of five-chapters designated Yuddhas (battles) with an obvious allusion to the Gada-yuddha between Bhima and Suyodhana.
Abhinava-Gada is an uncompromisingly fighting treatise directed to a sustained and systematic refutation of Appayya Dikshita's furious, frontal attack on Madhva in his Madhvamukhamardanam.
[1] Unlike Vijayendra Tirtha, the author tries to silence the criticism of Appayya Dikshita, without reference, as a rule, to the opinions expressed by Jayatirtha and Vyasatirtha in their works.
Vijayendra Tirtha, on the other hand, has throughout tries to treat the works of the Bhashyakara and those of his commentators, as a homogeneous whole and make them withstand the criticisms of Dikshita, as a united body of texts.
[1][5] Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most writes, "The work Abhinava-Gada is a new mace which broke the heads of non-dualists like Appayya Dikshita".