Discussion
In case of conflict between sense experience and testimony S'aṁkara prescribes to go by :
Answer: B
In a conflict with testimony on matters of experience, Śaṅkara prescribes going by sense experience.
Śaṅkara holds that scripture is authoritative only about what lies beyond the reach of perception and inference, chiefly Brahman and dharma. In his commentary on the Gītā (18.66) he argues that even a hundred scriptural texts declaring fire to be cold would not be authoritative, because perception settles such matters. So where testimony and sense experience conflict over something perceptible, perception prevails.
Testimony keeps its authority only in its own sphere, so A is wrong for this case; reason and inference are not what he names as the deciding authority here.
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