[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.s5.3 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s5.3 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s5.3 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s5.3) Another important debate elucidated by Rājśekhara pertains to the value of \*kāvya\*. The puritans insist on doing away with all forms of \*kāvya\*. Rājaśekhara has cited three statements from these opponents of \*kāvya\* with the respective arguments advanced by each. The detractors of \*kāvya\* say that no one should engage with \*kāvya\* because \*kāvya\* subsists in falsehood, sin and vulgarity. Rājaśekhara enumerates these as three different prima-facie views¹⁷ and after elaborating upon their arguments, he takes them one by one for refutation with profuse examples. This in fact is a fight against the puritans with their Platonic ideas. - [Previous: c10.s5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s5.2) - [Next: c10.s6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s6.1) - [Up: c10.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s5.3) · Pramāṇa