Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.10
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.10
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c6.10
The very existence of Indra, the supreme deity is questioned by some.⁷ There are hymns in which perennial questions regarding life and destiny are raised.⁸ In the hymn on the creation of *Ṛgveda*, the seer dares to say that gods do not know how this creation came out, and even if there is a Supreme Being who presides over this creation, we are not sure whether he knows or knows not as to how this creation proceeded. There is *vāda* going on within the poet-seer.