[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) › c6.8 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.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 - [Previous: c6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.7) - [Next: c6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.9) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.8) · Pramāṇa