[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.s6.2 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s6.2 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s6.2 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s6.2) Knowing the rules of \*dharma\*, and attending an assembly, he who does not answer a query that is put forward, incurs a half of the demerit that is attached to telling a lie. If a person in the assembly knows the rules of \*dharma\* and speaks and gives a wrong answer, he incurs the sin of telling a lie.³¹ - [Previous: c5.s6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s6.1) - [Next: c5.s6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s6.3) - [Up: c5.s6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s6.2) · Pramāṇa