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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.

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Padmacandra, father of Yaçaçcandra, 260.

Padmagupta, cited by Dhanika, 293.

Padmāvatī, a heroine, 103, 107, 113, 125, 220.

Padmāvatī, place, 186.

Pahlavas, colour of, 366.

Painting, of actors’ faces, 37, 366.

Pālaka, king of Ujjayinī, 129, 133.

Palatal sibilants, produce strength of style, 332.

Pāli, 87, 89.

Pañcāla, music of speech of, 287.

Pañcāla style, 332, 335.

Pañcālas, colour of, 366.

Pāṇḍavas, 95, 96, 97, 266, 270.

Panegyrists, where placed in the auditorium, 370.

Pāṇini, the drama in, 31;
his position in grammatical literature, 290.

Paṇis and Saramā, dialogue of, 14, 19, 21.

Pantomime, 58, 258, 275, 351, and see Naṭa.

Pāpācāra, a bad king, 263.

Paramardideva, of Kālañjara, 265.

Paraçurāma, 96, 189, 194, 228, 233, 245, 271, 302, 319, 323, 327.

Parasite, in Greco-Roman drama, 65;
in Indian drama, see Viṭa.

Pariyātra, use of Bhūtabhāṣā in, 287.

Paronomasia, 238.

Pārçva, a Tīrthakara, 254.

Parthians, invaders of India, 60, and see Pahlava.

Partnership, of actor and singer, 363.

Parvateça, a king, 205 f. [386]

Pārvatī, the goddess, 300, 338, 352;
and the Lāsya dance, 12.

Paçumeḍhra, a student, 227.

Pāçupata, a monk in the Mattavilāsa, 184.

Pāçupatas, a Çaiva sect, 42.

Patañjali (B.C. 150), the grammarian, 32–5, 52, 71, 72, 77, 98.

Pathak, Prof. K. B., on date of Kālidāsa, 144.

Pathos, in Mṛcchakaṭikā, 136;
in Kālidāsa, 159, 161;
in Bhavabhūti, 193, 195;
as a sentiment, 319, 323, 324, 325, 348;
metre and style appropriate to, 331, 332.

Patience, as an allegorical character, 252.

Pause (vimarça), the fourth juncture of the drama, 299.

Persians, alleged to have knowledge of Greek tragedy, 59.

Phallic dances, as sources of drama, 16.

Phallic deities, 16, 21.

Phallic orgies, 41.

Philostratos, life of Apollonios of Tyana, 59.

Physicians, where placed in the auditorium, 370.

Picture, as dramatic motive, see Portrait.

Piety, as an allegorical figure, 252.

Pigments, mingling of, 369.

Pillars, as marking off places in the auditorium, 359.

Piçācas, demons, hair of, 366.

Pischel, Prof. Richard, theory of Itihāsa, 21;
suggestion as to origin of the drama in the puppet play, 52–6;
on the authorship of the Mṛcchakaṭikā, 128;
on Bhāsa and the Sthāpaka, 342.

Pity, as a character, 252.

Plautus, 64.

Play within a play, 303;
in the Priyadarçikā, 173;
the Uttararāmacarita, 191, 192;
the Bālarāmāyaṇa, 233.

Pleasantry (narman), as part of the graceful manner, 326.

Pleasure, as connected with the primitive drama, 50;
as a characteristic of the classical period of the Sanskrit drama, 284;
supernatural character of aesthetic, 318, 319, 320, 321.

Plot, 277, 296–305, 355.

Plutarch, on drama in Parthia, 59.

Poetics, 169 and Part III.

Poets, where placed in the auditorium, 370.

Police officials (nāgaraka), speech of, 141, 336.

Polity, as an allegorical character, 254.

Portraits, as dramatic device, 154, 174, 257, 303, 326.

Poverty, evils of, 137.

Pṛthu, father of Viçākhadatta, 204.

Pṛthvīdhara, on Prākrits of the Mṛcchakaṭikā, 141.

Practice of drama, influenced by theory, 352–4.

Pradyota Mahāsena, 102, 130.

Pradyumna, 48, 49.

Prahasta, ally of Rāvaṇa, 246.

Prahlādanadeva, author of the Pārthaparākrama, 83, n. 1, 247, 264, 265, 341, n. 1.

Prākrits, 40, 46, 50, 58, 243, 273, 275, 287, 301, 302, 311, 333, 336–8;
evidence of, as to origin of drama, 72–5;
of Açvaghoṣa, 86–9;
Bhāsa, 121, 122;
Mṛcchakaṭikā, 140–2;
Kālidāsa, 161, 166;
Harṣa, 181;
Mahendravikramavarman, 185;
Bhavabhūti, 203;
Viçākhadatta, 211, 212;
Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa, 219;
Rājaçekhara, 236;
Kṣemīçvara, 240;
Yaçaḥpāla, 256.

Prākrit drama. 65, 66, 69–72, 236, 257;
translation of Prākrit passages into Sanskrit, 337.

Prākrit Kāvya, later than Sanskrit Kāvya, 71, 77.

Prākrit stanzas, 253.

Pralamba, a demon, 48, 99.

Pramodaka, in the Mudrārākṣasa, 206.

Pratāparudra, of Warangal, 293.

Pratiṣṭhāna, 129.

Preliminaries, of the drama, 51, 66, 111, 339–44, 368, 369.

Previous birth, influence on ability to write poems, 288.

Privation, as an aspect of love, 323.

Priyadarçikā, a heroine, 173, 174.

Priyaṁvadā, friend of Çakuntalā, 153, 159.

Problems of life, ignored in Sanskrit drama, 160, 195, 196, 197, 280, 281, 354.

Progression (pratimukha), as the second juncture, 298, 299.

Prologue, 66, 111, 114, 239, 339–44, 369.

Pronominal forms, in Açvaghoṣa’s and Bhāsa’s Prākrits, 87, 122.

Propitiation (prarocanā), 328.

Prose, 23, 50, 51, 58, 73, 76, 202, 337;
narrative style, 273;
simple in the Nāṭaka, 345.

Protagonist, compared to Sūtradhāra, 66.

Proverbial phrases, affected by Bhāsa, 120.

Proverbs, 211, 236.

Public, dramas and, the, 370, 371.

Pulindas, a people, colour of, 366.

Puṇyaketu, a character, 254, 255.

Puppet play, relation to drama, 52, 53.

Purūravas, a hero, 14, 22, 62, 149, 151, 156, 157, 233. [387]

Puruṣamedha, 25.

Puruṣottama, name confused with that of Purūravas, 150;
celebrated, 240.

Puṣpaka, car, 101.

Puṣyagupta, described as a Rāṣṭriya, 69.

Puṣyamitra, a king, 149.

Pūtanā, demoness killed by Kṛṣṇa, 99.