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Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c13: Appendix: Selected List of Vādas Referred in This Work

Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c13

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Appendix: Selected List of Vādas Referred in This Work

Debates on Public Platforms

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• Anant Shatri Dongre's debate with fundamentalists (p. 324).
• Assembly to pass a resolution of thanks in favour of Max Müller (p. 302).
• Aśvaghoṣa's debate with Pārśva (pp. 96-97).
• Brāhmaṇas of Pune holding an assembly for correction of *Ṛgveda* manuscripts (p. 302).
• *Brahmodyas* as described in *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* (pp. 44-45).
• *Brahmodyas* desctribed in the Upaniṣads (pp. 47-51).
• *Brahmodyas* organized during the performance of Aśvamedha ceremony as described in *Yajurveda* (pp. 45-46).
• Buddha's debate with Saccaka (p. 86).
• Buddha's debate with Saccaka *Dhammakathā* (discussion of *Dhamma*) techniques of *kathā* in *Kathāvatthu* (p. 86).
• Dayanand's Debates (pp. 304, 312, 314-24)
• Debate between Aṣṭāvakra and Vandin in Janaka's court as described in *Mahābhārata* (pp. 76-77).
• Debate between Māṇikyasūrin and Śaṅkara as described in *Jalpakalpalatā* (pp. 125-26).
• Debate between Nāgasena and Milinda as described in *Milindapañho* (pp. 94-96).
• Debate between Raṅgojibhaṭṭa and Vidyādhīśa (pp. 136-37).
• Debate conducted in the assembly of 6,000 sages in Himalayan region (p. 698).
• Debate of Draupadī with Bhīṣma and others (pp. 70-75).
• Debate on split of the Saṁgha (Buddhist order) (pp. 90-94).
• Debates between the followers of Mahāvīra with Buddha or his disciples (pp. 87-89).
• Debates by Bal Shastri, Shiv Kumar Shastri, Gangadhar Shastri, Damodar Shastri, Ramakrishna Shastri (Tatya Shastri), etc. (pp. 326-27).
• Debates by Kuṇḍalakeśī (p. 94).
• Debates in Buddhist councils *saṅgītis* (pp. 90-94).
• Debates of Lokāyatikas in the hermitage of Kaṇva (p. 55).
• Debates of Nīlakeśī (pp. 104-05).
• Debates of other sages with Yājñavalkya (pp. 48-50).
• Debates of Udayana (pp. 111-12, 116, 118-20).
• Debates of Vādirāja (p. 122).
• Discussion and debate between Rāma, Bharata, Jābāli and Vasiṣṭha on nullification of Rāma’s banishment (pp. 55-62).
• Gārgī’s debate with Yājñavalkya (pp. 48-50, 117).
• Jagannātha vs. a Maulavī at Jaipur (p. 136).
• Jāratkārava Ārtabhāga’s debate with Yājñavalkya (pp. 48-50).
• Paṇḍitā Ramabai’s debates (pp. 324-26).
• Raja Rammohun Roy in debate with Subrahmanya Shastri (p. 305).
• Rāmānuja and Rāmānanda and several medieval saints preaching their philosophy and standing against the caste system (p. 10).
• Raṅgojībhaṭṭa (Raṅgojī) vs. Vidyādhīśa (pp. 136-38).
• Śakuntalā’s debate with Duṣṣanta (p. 75).
• Sañjaya Kātyāyana, Pūraṇa Kaśyapa, Makkaliputta Gosāla (Maṅkhaliputra Gośāla), Ajita Keśakambalin, Kakuda Kaccāyana (p. 83).
• Śaṅkara’s conquests (pp. 115-18).
• Śāstraparīkṣās organized in city of Pāṭaliputra (p. 7).
• *Śāstrārthas* in marriage (p. 4, 4 fn).
• *Śāstrasabhās* (p. 7 fn).
• Sulabhā’s debate with King Janaka (pp. 21-22, 32, 53-54).
• Śvetaketu — his dialogues with the King Pravahaṇa Jaivāli and Janaka (pp. 50-51).
• Śvetaketu’s *vāda* against sexual exploitation of women (p. 51).
• Uddālaka Āruṇi’s participation in a *brahmodya* (pp. 44-45).
• Uṣastā’s debate with Yājñavalkya (p. 49).
• *Vākyārthasabhās* (p. 7).
• Vāseṭṭha and Bhāradvāja (p. 86).

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• Veṅkaṭanātha’s debates (pp. 127-31).

Dialogues and Discussions

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• Dialogue between Sītā and Rāma in Daṇḍakāraṇya on the vulnerability of violence and practice of non-violence (pp. 55, 62-63).

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• Kausalyā’s conversation with her husband Janaka on the question of action vs. asceticism (p. 68).

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• Sītā’s conversation with Rāma on his disowning of her after Rāvaṇa is vanquished (pp. 63-65).

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• Śvetaketu’s conversations with his wife Suvarcalā (pp. 52-53, 68)

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• The *saṁvāda* between Kṛṣṇa and Nārada on various questions of diplomacy (p. 70).

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• Viśvāmitra’s debate with a *cāṇḍāla* on *dharma* (p. 77).

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• Yudhiṣṭhira asks Bhīṣma on the choice between violence and non-violence (p. 68).

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• Yudhiṣṭhira’s dilemma on *karma* (action) and *jñāna* (knowledge) and his debate with Draupadī, Bhīma and others (p. 67).

Philosophical Debates in Texts

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• Akalaṅka (pp. 106-07, 111).

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• Al-Biruni (pp. 122-24).

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• Appayya Dīkṣita vs. Mādhvavedānta (pp. 135-36).

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• *Arthaśāstra* as a text of debates (pp. 42, 88-89).

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• Bādarāyaṇa and Śaṅkarācārya (pp. 9-10, 32).

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• *Bhaṭṭojikuṭṭanam* (p. 138).

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• Buddha’s condemnation of debates (pp. 19-20).

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• Critique of Cārvāka philosophies by other systems (pp. 79-80, 190-96).

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• *Dabistān-e-mazahib* (pp. 34, 143-46).

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• Debate between *Nyāyāmṛtam* and *Advaitasiddhi* (p. 132).

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• Debate described in the Vedic Saṁhitās (pp. 42-44)

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• Debate in *Nirukta* (pp. 77-78).

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• Debates between Buddhist Logicians and Naiyāyikas (pp. 98-101).

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• Debates between Idealism and Materialism (pp. 190-96).

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• Debates by the Lokāyatikas or the Cārvākas (pp. 10, 12).

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• Debates of Nāgārjuna in *Vigrahavyāvartinī* and *Mādhyamikakārikā* with Nyāya, Vedānta (pp. 97-100).
• Debates on Orientalism (pp. 295-99).
• Debates on Philosophy of Language (pp. 114-15).
• Debates on Scriptural Authority (pp. 208-09).
• Debates on the Absolute and God as Creator (pp. 213-19).
• Debates on the nature of Reality (pp. 196-208).
• Debates on the theory of knowledge (pp. 209-12).
• Debates within Buddhist schools (pp. 97-98).
• Debates within Orthodox systems of philosophy Jñānakarmsamuccayavāda vs. Kevalajñānavāda (pp. 188-89).
• Dharmakīrti vs. Nyāya (pp. 23-26, 107-12).
• Dharmakīrti's disagreements on *vyāpti*, *nigrahasthānas* and *hetu* (with Diṅnāga and Gautama) (pp. 108-83).
• Dialogue hymns of *Ṛgveda* (p. 44).
• Diṅnāga vs. Bhartṛhari's philosophy of Śabdabrahmavāda (p. 107).
• Friedrich Schlegal, Schopenhauer (pp. 284-86, 297, 303).
• Haribhadra (pp. 87, 105-06, 111).
• *Kāmasūtra* of Vātsyāyana (pp. 52, 90, 106).
• Madhusūdana vs. Rāmārya (pp. 134-35).
• Madhva and Trivikrama (pp. 125).
• *Mahānirvāṇatantra* (pp. 149-50).
• *Manoramākucamardanī* (p. 138).
• *Mubahisa-e-Hudusa-e-duniya* (p. 34).
• Nandaka's discussions on *kathā* in *Anumānasutta* and *Upālisutta* (p. 86).
• *Raṅgojibhaṭṭadhikkāra* (p. 137).
• Refutation of other systems by Devasūri in his *Syādvādamañjarī* (p. 122, 125).
• Rejoinders to Appayya Dīkṣita (pp. 135-36).
• S. Radhakrishnan's critique of Albert Switzer's view (p. xiii).
• *Samaṇasutta*, *Svarājyaśāstra*, commentaries on *Gītā* and *Japuji* (p. xiii).
• *Samudrasaṅgama* (pp. 146-48).
• Śaṅkara's disagreement with Manu on *kāma* and the dignity of *gṛhasthāśrama* (pp. 188-89).

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• Sarahapā's disagreements with Buddhism and other systems (pp. 193-94).
• *Sarvadarśanasaṁgraha* (pp. 81, 101-02, 130).
• *Śatadūṣaṇī* (pp. 128, 130).
• *Tarkatāṇḍava* of Vyāsatīrtha (pp. 126, 132).
• *Tattvopaplavasiṁha* (pp. 112-14).
• The *Mahābhāṣya* of Patañjali (pp. 80, 90).
• Vijñānabhikṣu's reformulation of classical Sāṁkhya and his disagreement with Vedānta on concept of *dṛṣyatva* (p. 190).
• Vyākaraṇa Setumādhavācārya's *Tattvakaustubha* as critique of Bhaṭṭoji under the title *Tattvakaustubhakuliśa* (p. 138).
• Zalāluddin Dāvānī — his *Akhlaque Nāsirī* (p. 34).

Debates on Legal and Socio-political Matters in the Texts

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• Bādarāyaṇa's views in his *Apaśūdrādhikaraṇa* countered by the other philosophers like Bhāguri, the *Mahābhārata* or *Gītā* (p. 222).
• Bādarāyaṇa's views on the rights of śūdras to study Veda in his *Apaśūdrādhikaraṇa* of *Brahmasūtra*, Pūrva-Mīmāṁsā supporting his views (p. 221).
• *Bhaṭṭācārya Sahit Bicār* (p. 305).
• Critique of *varṇāśrama*-centric culture by tāntric systems (pp. 222-24).
• Debate on the coronation ceremony of Shivaji (pp. 237-38).
• Debates in Dharmaśāstras on laws of inheritance, women's rights and marriage (pp. 227-36).
• Debates of Ārya Samaj (p. 314).
• Debates on caste system (p. 236).
• Debates on Polity and Governance (p. 227).
• Debates on *satī* (pp. 292, 295, 306).
• Debates on the provision of divorce in marriage (pp. 230-32).
• Debates on widow marriage: *Vidhavodvāhaśaṅkāsamādhih* (pp. 310-11).
• Edicts of King Aśoka (p. 11).
• *Laghuṭaṅka* a rejoinder to *Vajrasūcī* (pp. 226-27).
• Mritjunjaya Vidyalankar *Vedāntacandrikā* (pp. 292, 305).
• Refutations of *Satyārthaprakāśa* and rejoinders (pp. 319-24).
• Rejection of caste system by Dharmakīrti and other Buddhist philosophers (p. 224).
• Satyārthaprakāśa as a text in *vāda* (pp. 315-19).
• The debates on property laws (pp. 288-89).
• *Vajrasūcī* and the Debate on the Caste System (p. 226).
• *Vajrasūcyopaniṣad* (p. 226).
• *Vivādabhaṅgārṇava* (p. 287).
• *Vivādārṇavasetu* (pp. 287-88).
• *Vyavahāradaśaślokī* (p. 287).

Debates on Literary Theory, Aesthetics and Literature

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• *Āgamadambaraprahasana* of Jayantabhaṭṭa (pp. 269-71).
• Bhavabhūti’s plays as *vāda* texts (pp. 262-65).
• *Bṛhattrayī*: as a *vāda* discourse (pp. 266-69).
• Concepts and categories of *vāda* in literary theory (pp. 245-46).
• Debates on the theory of *alaṁkāra* (pp. 256-57).
• *Dhuttakkhāṇa* (*Dhūrtākhyāna*): Debates by Rogues (p. 269).
• Kālidāsa’s *kāvyas* as Debates (pp. 259-62).
• *Kāvyamīmāṁsā* as a *vāda* text (pp. 247-48)
• Major debates in literary theory (pp. 246-47).
• *Naṭāṅkuśa*: a *vāda* with the Cākyārs (pp. 257-59).
• *Nāṭyaśāstra* as a *saṁvāda* text (pp. 239-40).
• *Rasa* discourse: debates and diversities (pp. 248-56).
• *Vāda* in *kāvya* and *kāvya* in *vāda* (pp. 271-81).
• *Vāda* reflected in the conceptual framework of *Nāṭyaśāstra* (pp. 241-45).
• *Vādas* in Kāvya-literature (p. 259).

Debates Within

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• Hanumān’s debate with his own self during his search for Sītā in Laṅkā (p. 32).
• Hymn of Dīrghatamas as a debate with the self (p. 44).
• *Vāda* going on within the poet-seer (p. 43).

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