Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s6.20

c10.s6.20

Some of the *ācāryas* propounded the theory of twofold *rasa* — *laukika* (this-worldly) and *alaukika* (other-worldly). *Laukika rasa* is *svagata* (belonging to the character) and *alaukika rasa* is *paragata* (belonging to the connoisseur). Bhaṭṭanāyaka had stood against the theory of *svagata rasa*. But others continued to argue in favour of the other side of the *rasa* theory. They were standing on the solid ground which Bharata Muni himself had prepared. Defining *nāṭya* (theatre), Vidyānātha in his *Pratāparudrīya* says: