[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) › c5.s4.2 # Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s4.2 Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s4.2 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s4.2) Rājaśekhara has described the assembly hall, arrangements for seats, etc. in it for holding \*kāvyakāra-parīkṣās\* (examination of poets) and \*śāstrakāra-parīkṣās\* (examination of scholars). The assembly hall should have sixteen pillars, for doors and eight \*mattavāraṇīs\*, with one platform with the royal seat for the king (he is supposed to preside in all the \*parīkṣās\*). The poets, scholars of diverse knowledge systems, artists, etc. are assigned places in the assembly hall. This assembly hall served the purpose for holding all sorts of \*vādas\* — \*vādas\* for judging the quality of a new poet or the acquisitions of an emerging scholar. Even when speaking as an \*ācārya\* of Alaṃkāraśāstra (literary theory) and making recommendations to a poet-king, Rājaśekhara wants the \*śāstrakāra-parīkṣās\* to be held in between the poets meets, as “wine alone does not taste good, it required some snacks to be combined with”.²⁷ - [Previous: c5.s4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s4.1) - [Next: c5.s4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s4.3) - [Up: c5.s4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.tripathi-2021.c5.s4.2) · Pramāṇa