[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.s8.3 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s8.3 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s8.3 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.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. - [Previous: c10.s8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s8.2) - [Next: c10.s8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s8.4) - [Up: c10.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s8) ## Linked texts (1) - [Nāṭyaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.bharata.natyasastra) — Bharata, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c10.s8.3) · Pramāṇa