[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) › c5.s19.15 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s19.15 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s19.15 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s19.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s19.15) ⁹ There was a tradition of holding a \*śāstrārtha\* (intellectual debate) between the \*paṇḍits\* representing \*vara-pakṣa\* (bridegroom’s party) and the \*kanyā-pakṣa\* (bride’s party) on the occasion of a marriage amongst brāhmaṇa families. Unfortunately \*śāstrārthas\* in marriage have now become extinct, and none of those that were held earlier is known to have been recorded. Prof. Ramesh Kumar Pandey, Vice-Chancellor of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi, told me that he had represented the bridegroom’s party in a \*śāstrārtha\* during a marriage, and his opponent representing the other party was no less than Pundit Badrinath Shukla, one of the greatest Naiyāyikas of Kāśī. Mostly such \*śāstrārthas\* were not taken seriously, the victory of the \*paṇḍit\* representing the \*vara-pakṣa\* being a foregone conclusion. - [Previous: c5.s19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s19.14) - [Next: c5.s19.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s19.16) - [Up: c5.s19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s19.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s19.15) · Pramāṇa