Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s3.1

c6.s3.1

The tendency to use tricks in scholarly debate must have been in practice during the age of *Mahābhārata*. Śakuni when remonstrated by Yudhiṣṭhira on the use of trick in the game of dice, says: “a scholar surpasses a nonscholar only through his *nikṛti* (trick), but it is not regarded as trick”.⁵⁴