Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s2.16

c10.s2.16

Finally, *Nāṭyaśāstra* also opens the gateways for a *svarāja* in theatre in the treatment of an inner *vāda* which goes on inside an actor. Bharata Muni presents his own paradigm for the autonomy of his discipline and freedom of the artist. *Loka* (world), *veda* (theory) and *adhyātma* (self of the artist), these three are defined by him as the *pramāṇas* (criteria) for theatre.¹³ An artist has to search his own way in the context of the world around him and the framework of theories and methods that he has been tutored in.