Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c7.s1.6

c7.s1.6

In the well-known instance “there is fire on the mountain, because smoke is arising out of it”, the *pañcāvayava-vākya* will be formulated in the following manner:
• There is fire on the mountain — *pratijñā*.
• Because there is smoke arising from its top — *hetu*.
• Wherever there is smoke, there is fire, just as we see it in the kitchen — *dṛṣṭānta*.
• So is on the mountain — *upanaya*.
• Therefore the fire burning on this mountain — *nigamana*.