Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s6.14

c10.s6.14

Abhinavagupta gave a sound but singular philosophical base to Bhaṭṭanāyaka’s views. As corollaries and rejoinders to the system that Abhinavagupta built, there are divergent views of Bhoja, Dhanika–Dhanañjaya, Mahima Bhaṭṭa, Rāmacandra–Guṇacandra and Śāradātanaya. The questions raised and the challenges posed by these return again and again in the history of *rasa* discourse running for more than two millennia, sometimes in the form of theory of *māyā rasa*; or sometimes as *navya-mata* or *para-mata*. The intellectual wrestling continues in the Sanskrit tradition till the present century.