[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) › c2.9 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c2.9 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c2.9 - **Language:** English ### [c2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.9) Even though marginalized to a large extent in the textual tradition of philosophical literature and surviving in thin numbers, the \*lokāyatas\* — materialists — have always remained assertive. Due to their skills in \*vāda\*, they actually commanded respect and were given prominence in socio-political life. There are epigraphic records to prove that they flourished in Karnataka and continued to practically debate with Vedāntins and other philosophers till fourteenth-fifteenth centuries.³ The Cārvāka philosophy has remained a contentious issue with almost all the philosophical schools for more than two millennia. The modern scholars have vehemently debated on various perspectives of the Cārvākas.⁴ The present work repositions Cārvākas and their postulations in the light of \*vāda\*s and the \*vāda\* texts. - [Previous: c2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.8) - [Next: c2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.10) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c2.9) · Pramāṇa