[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) › c10.s2.16 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s2.16 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s2.16 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.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. - [Previous: c10.s2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s2.15) - [Next: c10.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s3.1) - [Up: c10.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s2) ## Cites (1) - [Nāṭyaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.bharata.natyasastra) — Bharata, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s2.16) · Pramāṇa