Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s8.3

c10.s8.3

*Naṭāṅkuśa* is perhaps the most colossal exercise of generating *vāda* on an actual theatre practice — and that too of a very powerful theatre form — *kūṭiyāṭṭam* of the *cākyārs* of Kerala. No doubt the author is a great scholar, he cites *Nāṭyaśāstra* and several other texts very much authentically. The whole text is a single-handed attack; but the *pūrva-pakṣa* — the prima-facie view as the *cākyār* might have put up in his defence is also taken up extensively and then refuted point by point.