[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.s3.13 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s3.13 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s3.13 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.s3.13) The word \*saṁvāda\* is used in \*Mahābhārata\* in the sense of a highly-profound discussion between two intellectuals that was carried out in past and lives in the collective memory of a race, constituting an \*itihāsa\*. Many such \*saṁvāda\*s are cited in \*Mahābhārata\*. The \*saṁvāda\* between Kṛṣṇa and Nārada on various questions of diplomacy of polity is cited as something that happened in yore.⁶⁵ - [Previous: c6.s3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.s3.12) - [Next: c6.s3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.s3.14) - [Up: c6.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.s3) ## Cites (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.s3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.s3.13) · Pramāṇa