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Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.8

Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.8

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c6.8

Yāska exemplifies both in theory and practice how argument and investigation can be made tools to unravel the meanings of the *mantras*. Every *mantra* unfolds a vision (the *mantradṛṣṭi*) and this *mantradṛṣṭi* embraces high and low contentions, it does not traverse through linear paths.²