Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s13.2

c10.s13.2

*Dhuttakkhāṇa* builds its narratives through the art of gossiping and questioning the validity of each gossip. Each of the five rogues enters into a bet to tell fantastic tales of their experiences. Each one of them describes a number of impossible situations. The narrator challenges the listeners to prove the impossible situations described by him as possible. The other members of the audience do this by citing instances from *Rāmāyaṇa*, *Mahābhārata* and the Purāṇas. If this type of things can happen there, it can happen with you also — the narrator is told. In this way, if the emergence of four classes from the body of Brahmā is possible, and the length of the huge phallus of Śiva is immeasurable for Viṣṇu and Brahmā, Mūladeva's entering into a small pot of water and an enraged elephant chasing him also entering the same pot, the chase continuing in the pot for six months and finally the elephant remaining stuck in the neck of the pot and Mūladeva coming out of it and many more such absurdities are also possible.