[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021) › c10.s3.4 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s3.4 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s3.4 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s3.4) \*Vakrokti\* as an \*alaṁkāra\* is defined as “the utterance of one person misconstrued by the other on the basis of pun or intonation”.¹⁵ \*Vakrokti\* in this way is an aesthetic rendering of \*chala\*. In Sanskrit lyric poetry, this idea of \*vakrokti\* led to the cultivation of a genre entirely resting on debate between two persons and thousands of stanzas, and even long poems were created as \*vakrokti-kāvyas\*. This is being taken up in a next section. - [Previous: c10.s3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s3.3) - [Next: c10.s4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s4.1) - [Up: c10.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s3.4) · Pramāṇa