[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) › c7.14 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c7.14 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c7.14 - **Language:** English ### [c7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.14) Categorizations related to \*vāda\* find a mention at a number of places in \*Mahābhārata\*. The terms like \*tarka\*, \*jalpa\*, \*vitaṇḍā\*, \*nirṇaya\* and \*pramāṇa\*, \*nyāya\*, \*anumāna\*, have been used in this epic in the contexts of argumentation.⁶ The concept of \*pañcāvayava-vākya\* (five-member syllogism) had been developed long before Gautama wrote his \*Nyāyasūtra\*, as there is a reference to it in \*Mahābhārata\*.⁷ - [Previous: c7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.13) - [Next: c7.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.s1.1) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7) ## Linked texts (2) - [Nyāyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.nyaya.nyayasutra) — Akṣapāda Gautama, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c7.14) · Pramāṇa