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The Sanskrit drama

Chapter 107: F
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]

F

Fainting, as a dramatic motif, 192, 224, 228.

Faith, as a character, 252;
as a sentiment, 325, n. 1.

Faith in Viṣṇu, as a character, 253.

Falsity, as a character, 252.

Farce (prahasana), 182–5, 260–3, 280, 296, 309, 348.

Fate, 140, 277, 278.

Fear, sentiment of, 319, 324, 325.

Festivals, occasions of performance of dramas, 362.

Fifth manner, existence of, denied, 328, n. 1.

Fifth Veda, nature of the, 12, 13.

Fighting (sampheṭa), 328.

Figures of speech, 116, 117, 211, 330, 331, 333, 334.

Fire, imaginary, as a dramatic motif, 103, 173.

Fleet, Dr. J. F., theory of origin of Cedi era, 129.

Flesh-eating, as an allegorical character, 255.

Flesh-offering, to the ghouls of the cemetery, 188.

Forest dwellers, speech of, 347.

Fortune of the City, as an allegorical character, 255.

French borrowings from the classics, 68.

Friendship, in Bhavabhūti, 195, 196;
sentiment of, 325, n. 1.

Frog hymn (RV. vii. 103), 19.

Funeral games, and the origin of drama, 47.

Fury, sentiment of, 320, 323, 324, 347;
metre and style appropriate to, 331, 332.