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The Sanskrit drama

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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]

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Jagadīçvara, author of the Hāsyārṇava, 261, 262.

Jagajjyotirmalla, Haragaurīvivāha by, 76, n. 2, 247, 248.

Jagannātha, writer on poetics, 325.

Jain Māhārāṣṭrī, 256.

Jaina allegorical drama, 253–6.

Jainism, 252, 253–6.

Jains, and drama, 45, 46, 253–6, 286.

Jāmbavant, a bear, 227, 228, 229.

Janaka, of Videha, 189, 190, 202, 223, 227, 228, 245, 271.

Jan̄gamas, criticism of the, 263.

Jantuketu, a doctor, 261.

Jarta, victory of, over Hūṇas, 168.

Jaṭāyu, a vulture, 100, 189, 194, 228, 229, 245.

Jātūkarṇī, mother of Bhavabhūti, 186.

Javan drama, 57.

Jayadeva, author of the Gītagovinda, 40, 272.

Jayadeva, author of the Prasannarāghava, 226, 242, 244–6, 271, 363.

Jayadratha, of Sindhu, 96, 213, 215.

Jayakeçin, the Karṇāṭa, 256.

Jayantasiṅha, son of Vastupāla, 248.

Jayaprabha Sūri, teacher of Rāmabhadra Muni, 259.

Jayasiṅha Sūri, author of the Hammīramadamardana, 248–50.

Jayatala, king of Mewār, 249.

Jayataladevī, wife of Vīradhavala, 250.

Jayāpīḍa (A.D. 779–813), of Kashmir, 171, 368.

Jester, see Vidūṣaka.

Jhāṁkīs, of Bombay and Mathurā, 33. [381]

Jīmūtavāhana, hero of the Nāgānanda, 174, 175, 177, 179, 305, 306, 323, 326.

Jinamaṇḍana, author of the Kumārapālaprabandha, 256.

Jīvasiddhi, in the Mudrārākṣasa, 205, 207.

Jñānanidhi, teacher of Bhavabhūti, 186.

Jñānarāçi, a Bhāgavata, 263.

Jogīmārā cave, 54, 86, 89.

Jones, Sir William, 160.

Judgement, as a character, 251, 252.

Juncture (sandhi), 298–300, 346–51.

Jyotirīçvara Kaviçekhara, author of the Dhūrtasamāgama, 261.