Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s5.t14.5

Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s5.t14.5

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c6.s5.t14.5

Like Nāgārjuna and Śrīharṣa, the author of *Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya* (see Chap. 1), Jayarāśi shunned all positions, but unlike these two he was neither a Śūnyavādin nor a Vedāntin. He had presented his magnum opus as an exercise in *vikalpas* (alternatives).¹³³ The purpose of composing a text in *vitaṇḍā* like this for him might have been to repeal the hypocrisies that got attached to every dogma and also to show the way to win a debate.

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Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya — Śrīharṣa, Sanskrit