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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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V

Vaibhāra, mount, 260.

Vaidarbha style, 161, 331, 332.

Vairantya, capital of Kuntibhoja, 109.

Vairodhaka, in the Mudrārākṣasa, 206.

Vaiçya, 37, 38, 73, 363;
colour of, 366;
seats of, 359;
in the Mahāvrata rite, 24.

Vaiṣṇavas, 263.

Vajranābha, in the Kṛṣṇa legend, 48, 49.

Vajravarman, an aboriginal prince, 259.

Vākpati, author of the Gaüḍavaha, 91, 92, 187.

Vālin, a monkey king, 100, 105, 110, 114, 119, 189, 190, 194, 228, 229, 245, 297, 306, 327.

Vallabhadeva, commentator on the Meghadūta, 145.

Vālmīki, author of the Rāmāyaṇa, 114, 191, 192, 232, 303.

Valour, as an allegorical character, 254.

Vāmadeva, a seer, 14, 226.

Vāmana, a writer on poetics, 92, 102, 103, 104, 145, 330, 332.

Vāmana Bhaṭṭa Bāṇa, author of the Pārvatīpariṇaya, 221, 247, 263, 264.

Van̄gas, a people, colour of, 366.

Varadācārya, author of the Vasantatilaka, 263.

Varāhamihira, date of, 144.

Vardhamāna, capital of Çūdraka, 129.

Vardhamānaka, servant of Cārudatta, 141.

Vardhamāna Svāmin, 260.

Varuṇa and Indra, dialogue of, 15, 21.

Vasantācārya, son of Dhanika Paṇḍita, 293.

Vasantasenā, heroine of the Mṛcchakaṭikā, 104, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 139, 140, 309, 313, 335, n. 3, 363.

Vāsantī, in the Uttararāmacarita, 191, 200.

Vāsava, 83, n. 1, 265, and see Indra.

Vāsavadattā, queen of Udayana, 102, 107, 108, 109, 113, 119, 125, 171–4, 176, 220, 235, 303, 304.

Vasiṣṭha, a sage, 189, 229, 302;
dialogue of, in the Ṛgveda, 14, 17.

Vassal princes, where placed in the auditorium, 370.

Vasubandhu, the Buddhist philosopher, 145, 146.

Vasubhūti, a minister, 171, 173.

Vasudeva, 40, 98, 99, 214, 264.

Vāsudeva, 32, 34, and see Kṛṣṇa.

Vasukra, dialogue with Indra, 14.

Vasulakṣmī, a princess, in the Mālavikāgnimitra, 148.

Vasumatī, a queen of Duḥṣanta, 158.

Vasumitra, of the Çun̄ga dynasty, defeats the Yavanas, 149;
favours actors, 364.

Vastupāla, minister of Vīradhavala of Gujarāt, 248, 249, 250.

Vaṭeçvaradatta, the feudatory (sāmanta), grandfather of Viçākhadatta, 204.

Vatsa, or Udayana, 102, 108, 171–4, 176, 220, 235, 298, 303, 304, 305, 307, 309, 327, 361, 362, 364.

Vatsabhaṭṭi, imitates Kālidāsa, 146.

Vatsarāja, dramatist, 265, 266, 301.

Vātsyāyana, author of the Kāmaçāstra, 332, 335.

Veda, the fifth, 12, 13.

Vedakavi, author of the Vidyāpariṇayana, 253, n. 4.

Vedānta, in the Prabodhacandrodaya, 251–3.

Vedāntavāgīça, Bhojacarita, 345.

Vedic ritual, dramatic elements in the, 23–7.

Vegetation ritual, and drama, 45.

Vema, prince of Koṇḍavīḍu, 247.

Ven̄kaṭanātha, author of the Saṁkalpasūryodaya, 253.

Ven̄kaṭavarada, author of the Kṛṣṇavijaya, 267.

Verbal (bhāratī) manner, 326, 328, 329, 344;
in the Bhāṇa, 348.

Vernaculars, use of, 243, 334.

Vernacular drama, 243.

Verse, in drama, 23, 56, 58, 73, 76, 90, 279, 281, 282, 337.

Vibhīṣaṇa, brother of Rāvaṇa, 190, 229, 246, 327. [392]

Vidiçā, 147.

Vidyādhara, writer on poetics, 293, 294, 295, 325.

Vidyādharamalla, hero of the Viddhaçālabhañjikā, 234, 235.

Vidyādharas, 111, n. 3, 174, 191, 245, 256.

Vidyādharīs, wear jewels on the stage, 367.

Vidyānātha, author of the Pratāparudrīya, 248, 293, 295.

Vidyāraṇya, perhaps Sāyaṇa, 268.

Vigraharāja, see Vīsaladeva.

Vijayakoṣṭha, or Vijayaprakoṣṭha, ancestor of Kṣemīçvara, 240.

Vijayasena, general of Vatsa, 173.

Vijñānavāda school, 80.

Vikramāditya, 130, 143.

Vikramasiṅha, a prince, 133.

Vilāsaçekhara, a Viṭa, 263.

Vinayavasu, a chamberlain of Dṛḍhavarman, 173.

Vindhyaketu, a prince, 173.

Violent (ārabhaṭī) manner, 326, 327, 328.

Virādhaka, in the Mudrārākṣasa, 206, 208.

Vīradhavala, king of Gujarāt, 248, 249, 256.

Vīraka, a policeman, 141.

Virāṭa, a king, 97, 265, 266.

Viçākhadatta, dramatist (date as a younger contemporary of Kālidāsa supported, but inconclusively, by J. Charpentier, JRAS., 1923, pp. 585 ff.), 204–12, 218, 253.

Viçvāmitra, a sage, 189, 190, 226, 227, 240, 245, 281, 302;
father of Çakuntalā, 152;
dialogue of, with the rivers in the Ṛgveda, 14, 17, 20.

Viçvanagara, a mendicant, 261.

Viçvanātha, author of the Mṛgān̄kalekhā, 257, n. 1.

Viçvanātha, author of the Sāhityadarpaṇa, 220, 223, 294, 295, 302, 310, 321, 322, 325, 328, 329, 341, 342, 343, 347, 348, 349, 350.

Viçvanātha, author of the Saugandhikāharaṇa (not, as Winternitz, GIL. iii. 248, suggests, the writer on poetics, who does not cite the work as his), 266.

Viçvantara, legend of, 168.

Viçveçvara, author of the Çṛn̄gāramañjarī, 257.

Viṣṇu, 12, 17, 26, 98, 105, 106, 112, 268, 284, 354.

Viṣṇu, censure of actors, 363.

Viṣṇu, father of Dhanaṁjaya and Dhanika, 292, 293.

Vīsaladeva Vigraharāja, 248;
author of the Harakelināṭaka, 247.

Visions of the dying, 114.

Vocative of a stems in ā, in Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa, 219;
stems in ā, in Açvaghoṣa, 88.

Voice in the air, 303;
in the Bhāṇa, 348.

Vṛndā, or Lakṣmī, 274.

Vṛndā, wood, 99.

Vṛṣākapi, comparison of, with the Vidūṣaka, 51, n. 1.

Vṛṣākapi, hymn, 14, 18.

Vṛṣṇis, Kṛṣṇa born in the family of the, 98.

Vyāsa, Çrīrāmadeva, dramatist, 269, 270.