[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) › c2.17 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c2.17 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c2.17 - **Language:** English ### [c2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.17) One of the issues that consistently came up in all the knowledge texts is related to freedom. The concept of salvation in \*darśanas\* seeks individual liberation linked to social aspirations. The last criterion of \*dharma\* defined by Manu is \*svasya ca priyam ātmanaḥ\* (that which pleases the self). There is a continuity of search for the liberation in Smṛti texts, philosophical discourses, texts on aesthetics and literary theory through logics and reasoning, and this has continued to the twentieth century. - [Previous: c2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.16) - [Next: c2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.18) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.17) · Pramāṇa