[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.s5.1 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s5.1 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s5.1 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s5.1) Bhāravi in his \*Kirātārjunīyam\* has presented a debate between Draupadī, Bhīma and Yudhiṣṭhira involving perennial questions of polity and war. He has also described the qualities of speech for any conversation. They are — brilliance, perspicuity, grace and defined import (\*sauṣṭhvodāryaviśeṣaśālinīṁ viniścitārthāṁ\* — I.3), reasoning and radiance (\*upapattimadūrjitāśrayam\* — II.1), free from vagueness, pure, concise but heavily loaded with meanings (\*. . . garīyasi . . . bahur alpīyasi dṛṣyate guṇaḥ\* — II.4) charming in sense (\*rucirārthā\* — II.5). - [Previous: c5.s4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s4.6) - [Next: c5.s5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s5.2) - [Up: c5.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s5) ## Cites (1) - [Kirātārjunīya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya.1.3) — Bhāravi, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s5.1) · Pramāṇa