Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c1.28

c1.28

A man may spend his life studying the Kāvyas, he may cross the vast sea of Śāstras, but look at his pathetic condition if he has not studied the Nyāyaśāstra! His tongue would become still when he tries to say something in the assembly where a *vāda* is going on! Away with these scholars who have not made inquiries into the Pramāṇaśāstra, have not considered the categories and have not delved deep into the logics, and have not studied the *Tarkavidyā*!
— Veṅkaṭādhvarin in *Viśvaguṇādarśacampūḥ*²