Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c5.s7.9

c5.s7.9

The devastating nature of the violence of speech is brought in the last chapter of *Nāṭyaśāstra*. Bharata’s sons, trained by him in Nāṭyaveda later on began to perform the *śilpakas* of rustic nature (*grāmyadharmaka*) and presented the life and deeds of the sages residing in the vicinity of Himalayas by the way of *viḍambana* (caricature) and *vyaṅgyakaraṇa* (satire). The sages being laughed at in this way got infuriated and cursed the actors to be expelled from the divine region of the Himalayas and to become *śūdras*. But again Bharata Muni gets his sons reconciled to their predicament through discussion.