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Bābhravya, chamberlain of Vatsa, 171, 173.
Bāhlika, or Bālhika, a people, colour of, 366.
Bakchai, of Euripides, 59.
Baktria, Greek rule in, 57.
Baladeva, 48.
Bāla-Vālmīki, sobriquet of Murāri, 225.
Bali, binding of, performed in a dramatic manner, 32, 36, n. 1.
Bāṇa, writer (A.D. 625), 29, 76, 91, 171, 182, n. 3, 366.
Bāṇa, see Vāmana Bhaṭṭa Bāṇa.
Bandhurā, a go-between, 262.
Barbaras, speech of, 336;
excluded from theatres, 370.
Barygaza, Bharukacchā, as port through which Greek influence came, 60.
Battles, in the drama, 347, 351.
Baudhāyana, censures actors, 363.
Bearer of fans, where placed in the auditorium, 370.
Benediction, see Nāndī and Bharatavākya.
Bengal, Sanskrit used in, 287.
Bengālī recension, of the Vikramorvaçī, 151;
the Çakuntalā, 154, 155;
the Veṇīsaṁhāra, 219.
Bhādānakas, use of Apabhraṅça by, 287.
Bhadravatī, elephant, 108.
Bhāgurāyaṇa, in the Mudrārākṣasa, 205, 235.
Bhairavānanda, a magician, 234.
Bhāmaha, writer on poetics, 102.
Bhānudatta, views on sentiment, 319.
Bhānumatī, queen of Duryodhana, 213, 215, 219, 300.
Bharata, alleged author of the Nāṭyaçāstra, 12, 41, 150, 191, 343, 344, 349, 362, 364.
Bharata, brother of Rāma, 189, 224. [375]
Bharata, son of Duḥṣanta, 154, 157.
Bhārata tribe, 30.
Bharhut sculptures, dance represented on, 350, n. 2.
Bhartṛhari, poet, 366;
celebrated in the Bhartṛharinirveda, 248.
Bhartṛmeṇṭha, 232.
Bhāsa, dramatist, 42, 51, 66, 70, 73, 74, 87, 91–126, 147, 161, 185, 187, n. 2, 243, 270, 286, 292, 300, 301, n. 4, 305, 311, 335, 336, 341, 342, 346, 347, 353, 354, 371, n. 2.
Bhāskaradatta, a Mahārāja, 204.
Bhāskara Kavi, author of the Unmattarāghava, 268.
Bhāṭ, reciters, 30.
Bhaṭṭa Gopāla, grandfather of Bhavabhūti, 186.
Bhaṭṭa Lollaṭa, doctrine of sentiment, 316.
Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa, author of the Veṇīsaṁhāra, 83, 212–19.
Bhattanatha Svamin, on date of Murāri, 225.
Bhaṭṭa Nāyaka, writer on poetics, 291, 317, 318, 320, 321.
Bhavabhūti, dramatist, 42, 139, 161, 186–203, 209, 217, 225, 226, 227, 232, 239, 247, 257, 271, 281, 284, 297, 301, 311, 343, n. 1, 352, 353, 364.
Bhīma, a Pāṇḍava, 95, 96, 97, 109, 213, 214, 215, 216, 218, 266, 304, 329, 340.
Bhīmadeva II, the Cālukya, 256.
Bhīmaṭa, author of Svapnadaçānana, 239.
Bhīmeçvara, procession of the god, 248.
Bhīṣma, preceptor of the Kauravas, 97.
Bhoja (11th cent.), writer on poetics (JRAS. 1923, p. 545 ff.), 143, 325, n. 1, 331.
Bhujan̄gaçekhara, a Viṭa, 263, 264.
Bhūrivasu, a minister, 187.
Bhūtas, honoured in the preliminaries of the drama, 340.
Bhuvanapāla, minister of Saṁgrāmasiṅha, 249.
Bidyāpati Ṭhākur, Maithilī dramatist, 243.
Bilhaṇa, author of the Karṇasundarī, 256.
Bimbisāra, king of Magadha, 43.
Bloch, Th., on the Greek origin of the Indian theatre, 67.
Bourgeois Comedy, see Prakaraṇa and Prakaraṇikā.
Boy, suggested marriage to, as a motif, 234, 235, 256.
Bṛhannalā, a eunuch, 335.
Brahmā, as creator of the Nāṭyaçāstra, 12, 13, 41.
Brahmadeva, of Raypur, 270.
Brahmin and hetaera, dialogue of, 39, 73.
Brahminical supremacy, in Bhāsa, 110;
in Kālidāsa, 160;
in Bhavabhūti, 197;
theory of life, 281.
Brahmin, 81, 276, 277, 281, 282, 283, 306;
as the Vidūṣaka, 310, 311;
address of, 314;
as hero of the Prakaraṇa, 346;
the Çilpaka, 351;
seats for, 359;
colour of, 366;
where placed in the auditorium, 370.
Brajbhāshā, 41.
Breach of alliance (saṁghātya), 327.
Buddha, the, 81, 82, 87, 179;
statues of the, 58;
as a dramatic character, 306.
Buddharakṣitā, in the Mālatīmādhava, 198.
Buddhism, disapproved, 252, 253.
Buddhist monk, 135;
nun, 193, 335.
Buddhists, and the drama, 42, 44, 174, 175, 284;
addressed as Bhadanta, 314.