[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.s3.1 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s3.1 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s3.1 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.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 - [Previous: c6.s2.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.s2.50) - [Next: c6.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.s3.2) - [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.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c6.s3.1) · Pramāṇa