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Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s5.t12.10

Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s5.t12.10

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c6.s5.t12.10

The story of protracted conflict between the realist school and the Diṅnāga school in which the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika is the chief combatant on the orthodox side is one of the most fascinating chapters of Indian philosophy. The conflict lasted some six hundred years from fifth century CE to the eleventh.¹²⁴