[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.s2.2 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s2.2 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s2.2 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s2.2) \*Vāda\* and its categories are conspicuously employed in the theory of \*vācika abhinaya\* involving speech for performance. A content of a dramatic piece is structured in dialogues. The presentation of these dialogues with \*abhinaya\* creates theatre. The verbal content of a play in this way may have exchange of views, discussions involving repartees and rejoinders. In chap. XXII of \*Nāṭyaśāstra\*, Bharata has discussed twelve types of \*vākyābhinaya\*, some of the categories of which are imbued with skills of debate. These twelve types are: \*ālāpa\* (addressing), \*pralāpa\* (gibberish talk), \*vilāpa\* (lamentation), \*anulāpa\* (repetition), \*saṃlāpa\* (exchange of words, verbal dual), \*apalāpa\* (refutation of what has been said earlier), \*sandeśa\* (message), \*atideśa\* (agreement), \*nirdeśa\* (instruction), \*vyapadeśa\* (concealed speech), \*upadeśa\* (advice) and \*apadeśa\* (suggestion).⁵ - [Previous: c10.s2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s2.1) - [Next: c10.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s2.3) - [Up: c10.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Nāṭyaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.natyasastra) — Bharata, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s2.2) · Pramāṇa