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The Sanskrit drama

Chapter 106: E
By Arthur Berriedale Keith
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A scholarly study traces the origins, development, theory, and practice of classical Indian drama written in Sanskrit and Prākrit, examining ritual and Vedic antecedents, the Nāṭyaśāstra’s account of divine origin, and debates prompted by newly discovered early fragments. It analyzes major dramatists and representative plays through the first millennium, outlines technical principles of poetics and stagecraft—such as rasa, characterization, metre, and performance conventions—and distinguishes theoretical prescriptions from later imitative works. The author confines discussion to literary-dramatic traditions, omitting vernacular theatre, and emphasizes how textual confusion in sources complicates but also illuminates understanding of classical dramatic art.

[Contents]

E

Eclecticism of classical age of Sanskrit literature, 284.

Egoism, as a character, 252.

Ekbatana, Greek artistes at, 59.

Elements of the plot (arthaprakṛti), 298, 299.

Elephant, artificial, to contain men, 327;
terrifies people in the street, 264.

Elephants, escape of, as dramatic motif, 193, 257.

Elision of consonants, not in Açvaghoṣa, 86;
in Bhāsa, 121;
with compensatory lengthening, 121.

Emotion (bhāva), 277, 278, 296, 316–26.

Energy (utsāha), as basis of heroic sentiment, 323.

Enigma (nālikā), 329.

Epics, and the drama, 27, 28–31, 42, 45, 47, 49, 58, 63, 75, 76, 281, 282, 297;
original form of, 21–3.

Epidicus, of Plautus, 64.

Episode (patākā), 297, 298, 299.

Equivoke, as dramatic motif, 304.

Erotic (çṛn̄gāra), sentiment, 278, 323, 324, 346, 347, 349, 350, 351;
metre and style appropriate to, 331, 332.

Eunuchs, 313;
in the Prahasana, 348.

Euripides, 59, 196, 197, 279, n. 1, 282.

Exalted, hero, 305, 306.

Excitement, sentiment of, 265.

Exegesis, as an allegorical character, 252.

Expansion (bindu), as element of the plot, 298, 346.