Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.9

c6.9

Yāska also shows that the seers themselves applied the method of *abhyūha* by taking up the example of *Ṛgveda* X.71.8. The word ohabrahmaṇaḥ in this passage according to Yāska actually means *ūhabrahmāṇaḥ* (those seers for whom the process of *ūha* {confutation} conversation.⁶ In this way, inquiry and conversation formed as integral part of the life and culture of Vedic people as sacrificial rituals. Those who did not rejoice at sharing spaces through dialogues were unwelcome.