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The Sanskrit drama

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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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Çabaras, speech of, 337.

Çailālins, followers of Çilālin, 31.

Çaiva dramas, 253.

Çaivas, criticism of, 263.

Çākambharī, in Sapādalakṣa, 260.

Çakas, and Sanskrit drama, 60, 69–72;
defeated by a Vikramāditya, 143;
mode of address in the drama, 314;
speech of, 337;
colour of, 366.

Çakaṭa, a demon, 99.

Çakaṭadāsa, in the Mudrārākṣasa, 205 f.

Çakti, female energy of Çiva, 42.

Çakuntalā, an Apsaras, 152–5, 193, 297, 298, 299, 303.

Çākyabhikṣu, in the Mattavilāsa, 183.

Çālivāhana, 129, and see Sātavāhana.

Çalya, king of the Madras, ally of the Kauravas, 96, 115.

Çambūka, a Çūdra, 191.

Çan̄kara, author of the Çāradātilaka, 263.

Çan̄kara, commentator on the Çakuntalā, 154.

Çan̄karalāla, author of the Sāvitrīcarita, 270.

Çan̄karavarman (A.D. 883–902), of Kashmir, 291.

Çan̄khacūḍa, a snake, 175, 177.

Çan̄khadhara Kavirāja, author of the Laṭakamelaka, 260, 261.

Çan̄kuka, a writer on poetics, 291, 316.

Çan̄kukarṇa, in the Abhiṣekanāṭaka, 111.

Çāntā, and Ṛṣyaçṛn̄ga, 48.

Çāradvata, a hermit, 159.

Çāriputra, 81, 82, 84.

Çārn̄garava, a hermit, 159.

Çarvilaka, a thief in the Mṛcchakaṭikā, 64, 114, 131, 132, 135.

Çātakarṇis, use of Prākrit by the, 69.

Çatānanda, friend of Janaka, 189, 227, 245.

Çaunaka, views as to character of certain Vedic hymns, 15.

Çauṣkala, envoy of Rāvaṇa, 227.

Çekharaka, the Viṭa of Jīmūtavāhana, 177.

Çeṣakṛṣṇa, author of the Kaṅsavadha, 247.

Çīghraka, a spy, 250.

Çīlavatī, mother of Rājaçekhara, 231.

Çin̄ga Bhūpāla, author of the Rasārṇavasudhākara, 294.

Çiçupāla, of Cedi, 266, 267.

Çiva, 12, 17, 26, 41, 42, 47, 66, 183, 189, 227, 233, 241, 250, 267, 271, 284, 300, 338, 352.

Çivā, wife of Çiva, 241.

Çivadatta, an Ābhīra prince, 129.

Çivasvāmin, dramatist and poet, 220.

Çobhāvatī, capital of Çūdraka, 43, 129.

Çramaṇa, in the Çāriputraprakaraṇa, 82.

Çramaṇaka, guise adopted by Rumaṇvant, 108.

Çravaṇā, an ascetic, 228.

Çreṇika, of Magadha, 260.

Çrī, celebrated, 240.

Çrīkaṇṭha Nīlakaṇṭha, or Bhavabhūti, 186.

Çrīrāmadeva, Vyāsa, dramatist, 269, 270.

Çrīvardhamānaka, father of Murāri, 225.

Çūdra, a seller of Soma, 24;
struggle with Aryan in the Mahāvrata, 24.

Çūdraka, alleged author of the Mṛcchakaṭikā, 42, 51, 129–42.

Çūdras, Nāṭyaçāstra shared by, 12;
colour of, 366;
seats for, 359, 370;
referred to, 37, 73, 98, 99, 363.

Çuka, a spy, 229.

Çukra, in the Tripuradāha, 267.

Çunaḥçepa, tale of, 22;
a student, 227.

Çun̄ga dynasty, 149.

Çūra, minister of Avantivarman, 204.

Çūrasenas, colour of, 366.

Çūrpaṇakhā, enemy of Rāma, 189, 194, 227, 233.