Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c7.4
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c7.4
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**Theory of Vāda in Mahābhārata** *Mahābhārata* presents the first authentic exposition on the theory of debate through the discourse of Sulabhā which has been referred in the previous chapter. This discourse can be termed as “a conversation about how to converse well”.² Sulabhā enumerates eighteen blemishes of speech which corrupt the wisdom. Of these, nine belong to the structure and stylistics of the discourse and nine to intent of the interlocutor. They are as under: