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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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Radanikā, servant of Cārudatta, 141.

Rādhā, beloved of Kṛṣṇa, 40, 100, 247, 257, 272, 274.

Radī, Mīlacchrīkāra’s preceptor, 250.

Rāghavabhaṭṭa, commentator on the Çakuntalā, 154.

Raghu, Digvijaya of, 144.

Rājācala, 294.

Rājarāja I, of Tanjore, 251, n. 1.

Rājaçekhara, dramatist and critic, 52, 91, 103, 155, 225, 231–9, 242, 243, 244, 246, 256, 271, 287, 288, 300, 301, 337, 341, 350, 360, 363.

Rājaçekhara, the younger, 129.

Rājasiṅha, 93.

Rājendralālamitra, referred to, 269.

Rājputs, Rājaputras, language of, 87, 141, 336.

Rākṣasa, hero of the Mudrārākṣasa, 62, 205 ff., 352.

Rākṣasas, or Rakṣases, demons, 48, 223, 258;
dress of, 366.

Rāma, 30, 42, 47, 63, 100, 101, 105, 111, 116, 119, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195, 197, 199, 223, 224, 227, 228, 229, 233, 245, 246, 247, 269, 271, 279, 281, 282, 297, 303, 305, 307, 308, 316, 317, 323, 327, 328, 329.

Rāma, author of the Manmathonmathana, 267, 347.

Rāmabhadra Dīkṣita, author of the Jānakīpariṇaya, 246;
the Çṛn̄gāratilaka, 263.

Rāmabhadra Muni, author of the Prabuddharauhiṇeya, 259, 260.

Rāmacandra, dramatist, 225, 258, 259.

Rāmakṛṣṇa, author of the Gopālakelicandrikā, 272–4.

Rāmānuja, philosopher, 274.

Rāmavarman, author of the Rukmiṇīpariṇaya, 247.

Rambhā, a nymph, 49.

Rāmeçvara, grandfather of Jyotirīçvara, 261.

Rāmila, dramatist, 127, 129.

Ram-fights, 263, 285.

Rām-Līlā festival, 42.

Raṇajambuka, a comic general, 262.

Raṇamalladeva, of Raypur, 270.

Ran̄ganātha, commentator on the Vikramorvaçī, 151.

Rantivarman, v. l., for Avantivarman, 204.

Ratnacūḍa, a Vidyādhara, 229.

Ratnākara, a poet, 220, 225;
perhaps imitated by Viçākhadatta, 204.

Ratnāvalī, princess of Ceylon, 63, 298, 299, and see Sāgarikā.

Rauhiṇeya, hero of the Prabuddharauhiṇeya, 260.

Rāvaṇa, 49, 52, 100, 101, 105, 111, 116, 189, 190, 194, 227, 233, 242, 245, 246, 247, 269, 271, 279, 297, 306, 307, 327.

Ravidāsa (before A.D. 1812), Mithyājñānaviḍambana, 345.

Ravivarman (born A.D. 1266), Pradyumnābhyudaya, 344.

Reason, a character, 251, 252.

Recensions of the Mālavikāgnimitra, 147, n. 2;
of the Çakuntalā, 154, 155;
of the Vikramorvaçī, 151;
of the Veṇīsaṁhāra, 212, n. 3.

Recitation, as opposed to singing, 12, 20, 27, 337, 338.

Reciters, where placed in the auditorium, 370.

Recognition, in Greek and Indian drama, 62, 63.

Reed, banner of Indra, 369.

Reich, Prof. E., theory of mime, 67, 68.

Reinterpretation (avasyandita), 329.

Religion and the drama, 36–49, 339, 340, 369.

Repartee (vākkelī), 329.

Representation, of the drama, 364–9.

Revata, 48.

Rhyme, 239.

Ridgeway, Prof. Sir William, theory of origin of drama, 46, 47.

Ring, motif of lost, in the Çakuntalā, 62, 153;
magic, 101, 112.

Ritual cathartic cursing, and Greek comedy, 39, n. 2.

Rogue, peculiarly appropriate to the Prakaraṇa, 346;
the Prahasana, 348.

Rohasena, son of Cārudatta, 132, 137, 141.

Rohiṇī, beloved of the Moon, 237.

Roman borrowing from Greece, 68;
drama, 60, 64.

Royal Fortune, as an allegorical character, 99, 112, 255.

Rudens, of Plautus, 63. [388]

Rudra, the god, 17, and see Çiva.

Rudradāman (A.D. 151), use of Sanskrit in inscriptions of, 69.

Rudrasena, use of word Bhadramukha by, 69, 71.

Rudrasiṅha, a Kṣatrapa, 94, 95.

Rudraṭa, writer on poetics, 299.

Rukmin, enemy of Kṛṣṇa, 267.

Rukmiṇī, bride of Kṛṣṇa, 247, 266, 267.

Rukmiṇī, mother of Yaçaḥpāla, 254.

Rumaṇvant, a general, 108, 172, 177, 220.

Rūpa Gosvāmin, author of the Dānakelikaumudī, 268;
of the Vidagdhamādhava, and the Lalitamādhava, 247, 294.