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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]

U

Uktapratyukta, a duet, 338.

Ucca, used by Kālidāsa, 146.

Utkṛti, metre, appropriate to scenes of violence, 331.

Uttamottaka, a kind of song, 338.

Uttararāmacarita, by Bhavabhūti, 66, 139, 190–2, 194, 196, 199, 202, 203, 225, 303, 329, 344.

Utthāpaka, challenge, 327.

Utpatti, production of sentiment, 317.

Utpādya, invented (plot), 296.

Utsāha, energy, as basis of sentiment, 323.

Utsṛṣṭikān̄ka, a kind of drama, 347, 348, 363.

Udayanacarita, 327, 365.

Udātta, exalted (hero), 305, 306.

Udāttarāghava, by Māyurāja, 221, 223, 297.

Udāratā vacasām, claimed by Bhavabhūti, 196.

Udāratva, elevation of style, 331.

Udghātya, abrupt dialogue, 328;
in the prologue, 341.

Uddīpana, excitant determinants, 315.

Uddhata, haughty (hero), 305, 306, and see Dhīroddhata.

Unmattaka, disguise of, adopted by Yaugandharāyaṇa, 108, 184, 185.

Unmattarāghava, by Bhāskara Kavi, 268.

Upagīti, metre, 123.

Upajāti, metre, 123, 142, 166, 203, 212.

Upanāgarikā, style, 332, 333.

Upaniṣad, Theology, 251, 252.

Upapati, adulterer, 307, n. 1.

Upapatti, use of argument, 330.

Uparūpaka, minor dramatic forms, 268, 269, 349–51.

Upasthāyika, eunuch, 313.

Ummadantījātaka, alleged dramatic character of, 43, n. 1.

Ullāpya, a form of drama, 351.

Uṣṇih, metre, 346.