[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) › c9.s2.2 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c9.s2.2 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c9.s2.2 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c9.s2.2) After giving reasons for the rejection of these views, Aśvaghoṣa presents his own thesis about what-makes one a brāhmaṇa. Accordingly, it is the spiritual attainment of a person that endows him with brāhmaṇahood. He also describes the process of observing rigorous vows and austerities, etc. that leads to this attainment. He then rejects \*cāturvarṇya\* — the fourfold division of society into castes — acknowledging that a man is born with only one \*varṇa\*. - [Previous: c9.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c9.s2.1) - [Next: c9.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c9.s2.3) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c9.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c9.s2.2) · Pramāṇa