Kapila Vatsyayan (born 25 December 1928) is a leading Indian scholar of which umbrella term for various performance arts rooted in religious Hindu musical theatre styles, whose theory and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text "Natya Shastra", also called Shastriya Nritya?
Kapila Vatsyayan Kapila Vatsyayan (born 25 December 1928) is a leading Indian scholar of Indian classical dance, art and architecture, and an art historian. She was the founding director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi, and continues to be its chairperson.
Kapila Kapila (Hindi: कपिल ऋषि ) is a given name of different individuals in ancient and medieval Indian texts, of which the most well-known is the founder of the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. Kapila of Samkhya fame is considered a Vedic sage, estimated to have lived in the 6th-century BCE, or the 7th-century BCE.