Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s3.41
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s3.41
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c6.s3.41
Aṣṭāvakra was the son of Kahoḍa, the brother-in-law of Śvetaketu. Even when he was in the womb of his mother, Aṣṭāvakra is said to have raised an objection upon his father’s studying in the night, and was cursed to be born with eightfold deformity in his limbs.