[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) › c13 # 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 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [c13.s1 Debates on Public Platforms](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s1) — 2 parts - [c13.s2 Dialogues and Discussions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s2) — 8 parts - [c13.s3 Philosophical Debates in Texts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3) — 17 parts - [c13.s4 Debates on Legal and Socio-political Matters in the Texts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s4) — 1 part - [c13.s5 Debates on Literary Theory, Aesthetics and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s5) — 1 part - [c13.s6 Debates Within](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s6) — 1 part ### Appendix: Selected List of Vādas Referred in This Work ### Debates on Public Platforms ### [c13.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s1.1) • 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). ### [c13.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s1.2) • Veṅkaṭanātha’s debates (pp. 127-31). ### Dialogues and Discussions ### [c13.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s2.1) • Dialogue between Sītā and Rāma in Daṇḍakāraṇya on the vulnerability of violence and practice of non-violence (pp. 55, 62-63). ### [c13.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s2.2) • Kausalyā’s conversation with her husband Janaka on the question of action vs. asceticism (p. 68). ### [c13.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s2.3) • Sītā’s conversation with Rāma on his disowning of her after Rāvaṇa is vanquished (pp. 63-65). ### [c13.s2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s2.4) • Śvetaketu’s conversations with his wife Suvarcalā (pp. 52-53, 68) ### [c13.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s2.5) • The \*saṁvāda\* between Kṛṣṇa and Nārada on various questions of diplomacy (p. 70). ### [c13.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s2.6) • Viśvāmitra’s debate with a \*cāṇḍāla\* on \*dharma\* (p. 77). ### [c13.s2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s2.7) • Yudhiṣṭhira asks Bhīṣma on the choice between violence and non-violence (p. 68). ### [c13.s2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s2.8) • Yudhiṣṭhira’s dilemma on \*karma\* (action) and \*jñāna\* (knowledge) and his debate with Draupadī, Bhīma and others (p. 67). ### Philosophical Debates in Texts ### [c13.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.1) • Akalaṅka (pp. 106-07, 111). ### [c13.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.2) • Al-Biruni (pp. 122-24). ### [c13.s3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.3) • Appayya Dīkṣita vs. Mādhvavedānta (pp. 135-36). ### [c13.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.4) • \*Arthaśāstra\* as a text of debates (pp. 42, 88-89). ### [c13.s3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.5) • Bādarāyaṇa and Śaṅkarācārya (pp. 9-10, 32). ### [c13.s3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.6) • \*Bhaṭṭojikuṭṭanam\* (p. 138). ### [c13.s3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.7) • Buddha’s condemnation of debates (pp. 19-20). ### [c13.s3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.8) • Critique of Cārvāka philosophies by other systems (pp. 79-80, 190-96). ### [c13.s3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.9) • \*Dabistān-e-mazahib\* (pp. 34, 143-46). ### [c13.s3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.10) • Debate between \*Nyāyāmṛtam\* and \*Advaitasiddhi\* (p. 132). ### [c13.s3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.11) • Debate described in the Vedic Saṁhitās (pp. 42-44) ### [c13.s3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.12) • Debate in \*Nirukta\* (pp. 77-78). ### [c13.s3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.13) • Debates between Buddhist Logicians and Naiyāyikas (pp. 98-101). ### [c13.s3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.14) • Debates between Idealism and Materialism (pp. 190-96). ### [c13.s3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.15) • Debates by the Lokāyatikas or the Cārvākas (pp. 10, 12). ### [c13.s3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.16) • 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). ### [c13.s3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s3.17) • 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 ### [c13.s4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s4.1) • 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 ### [c13.s5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s5.1) • \*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 ### [c13.s6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c13.s6.1) • 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). ## Linked texts (27) - 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