Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s6.t4.60

c6.s6.t4.60

⁶⁴ ततस्तु मूलमुद्धृतं वादिप्रत्यर्थिसंयुतम् । पात्रदण्डविघातं च वल्कलाजिनवाससाम् एके मन्यु समापन्नास्ततः शान्ता द्विजोत्तमाः। — *Mahābhārata*, Śāntiparva 222 (It is not very clear whether the debaters were tearing their own cloths of bark, and destroying their own pots, etc. out of dejection or tearing cloths or destroying the properties of the opponents out of fury. The word *manyu* (vengeance) used here suggests that the scene of debate was transformed into a scene of scuffle.)