ABSTRACT
Philosophy in classical India consists in attempts to argue for or against the philosophical insights provided by the founding texts of various affiliations. With the rise of systematic philosophical schools a need was felt to come up with rigorous rules where philosophers talked about the kinds, structures and checks and balances of the debate. Since much of the debate took place against the background of the Vedic discourse, interpretation of the Vedic sentences occupies an important place in establishing one’s own position. Various hermeneutic principles were formulated in order to arrive at the correct understanding of the Vedic corpus.
