[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) › c1 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c1: Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c1 - **Language:** English ### Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses ### [c1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.3) Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses ### [c1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.5) Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses ### [c1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.6) Radhavallabh Tripathi ### [c1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.8) INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY Shimla ### [c1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.10) DK PRINTWORLD Publishers of Indian Traditions \*\*Cataloging in Publication Data — DK\*\* \[Courtesy: D.K. Agencies (P) Ltd. \\] ### [c1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.11) \*\*Tripathi, Radhavallabh, 1949- author.\*\* Vāda in theory and practice : studies in debates, dialogues and discussions in Indian intellectual discourses / Radhavallabh Tripathi. pages cm Includes bibliographical references. ISBN: 9788124610800 ### [c1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.12) 1. Knowledge, Theory of — India — History. 2. Debates and debating — India — History. 3. Debates and debating in literature. 4. Sanskrit literature — History and criticism. 5. Sanskrit drama — History and criticism. 6. Theater — India — History. I. Indian Institute of Advanced Study.publisher. II. Title. ### [c1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.13) B132.K6T75 2016 DDC 121.0954 23 ### [c1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.14) \*\*ISBN: 978-81-246-1080-0\*\* \*First published in India in 2021\* © Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. ### [c1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.15) All rights reserved. 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Mortal may wither like the fruits of the field and like the fruits of the field he is born again. — Tr. Sri Aurobindo¹ ### [c1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.27) ¹ Sri Aurobindo, 2001, \*The Upanishads\*, Part II, \*Kena and other Upanishads\*, p. 102. ### [c1.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.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 ### [c1.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.29) ² See Chapter 6 of this work. ### [c1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.30) पक्षयुग्लोज्ज्वलो जल्पकेलीमरालो विमलमवगाहते मानसं सुमनसाम्। — \*Jalpakalpalatā\* ### [c1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.31) The swan of debate, with both its \*pakṣas\* (the prima facie view and its rejoinder/the two wings of the bird) takes dip in the \*mānasa\* (mind/Mānasarovara) of good-hearted persons. ### [c1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.32) . . . we need a sort of continuous dialogue between persons who do not treat knowledge as power, who want to use knowledge as process of understanding, a process of becoming, that can bring together all living beings. It is a process of love and a process of discovering what has been universal across cultures. — Rafael Argullol³ ### [c1.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1.33) ³ Ibid. ## Linked texts (2) - [Kaṭhopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha) — Sanskrit - [Viśvaguṇādarśacampū](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.sthala.visvagunadarsa) — Veṅkaṭādhvarin 1630, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c1) · Pramāṇa