Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s2.20

Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s2.20

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c5.s2.20

So much importance was attached to *vāda* that Kṛṣṇa while enumerating his glorious forms (*vibhūtis*) describes *vāda* as one of his *vibhūtis*: *vādaḥ pravadatām aham* (*Gītā* X.32) — I am *vāda* amongst the disputants. Śaṅkarācārya in his *Bhāṣya* talks about *pravadatām* as implying three forms of *kathā* (discussion) — *vāda*, *jalpa* and *vitaṇḍā*. Amongst these, *vāda* is the best as it leads to the truth.

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Bhagavadgītā — Vyāsa, Sanskrit