[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) › c8.s5.4 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s5.4 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s5.4 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5.4) Regarding the aggregates (\*skandhas\*), bases (\*āyatanas\*) and elements, the Vaibhāṣikas believe that the word \*skandha\* means \*rāśi\*. It is an aggregate of the following: • Past, present and future, • the external and the internal, • the gross or the subtle depending upon its status as resistant (\*sapragraha\*) or non-resistant (\*apratigraha\*), • the inferior or the superior, and also depending upon whether it is sullied (\*kliṣṭa\*) or unsullied (\*akliṣṭa\*) with vices (\*kleśas\*), and • the far or the near — depending upon whether it is past, present or future. - [Previous: c8.s5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5.3) - [Next: c8.s5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5.5) - [Up: c8.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c8.s5.4) · Pramāṇa