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The Sanskrit drama

Chapter 142: K
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]

K

Ka, suffix, lengthening of vowel before, 87.

Kaṅsavadha, 37, 38.

Kaṅsavadha, by Çeṣakṛṣṇa, 247.

Kacci, in Bhāsa’s Prākrit, 122.

Kañcukin, chamberlain, 313.

Kaṭhinā, style, 332, n. 2. [396]

Kathakas, reciters, 29, 30.

Kathā, tale, 76, 258.

Kathāsaritsāgara, by Somadeva, 52, 129, 134, 192, 193.

Kathodghāta, form of prologue, 340.

Kadua, not in Bhāsa, 122.

Kapphiṇābhyudaya, poem by Çivasvāmin, 220, n. 2.

Kariya, gerund of kṛ in Açvaghoṣa, 88.

Karuṇa, pathos, as a sentiment, 323, 325.

Karuṇākandala, 343, n. 1.

Karotha, anomalous strong form in Açvaghoṣa, 88.

Karṇabhāra, by Bhāsa, 87, 96, 106, 122, 336.

Karṇasundarī, by Bilhaṇa, 256, 369.

Karpūrcaritra, by Vatsarāja, 265.

Karpūramañjarī, by Rājaçekhara, 232, 233, 234, 235, 239, 342, 350.

Kalahāntaritā, type of heroine, 309.

Kaleti, in Açvaghoṣa, 87.

Kādambarī, by Bāṇa, 129.

Kānti, beauty of style, 331.

Kāmandakīya Nītiçāstra, 291, n. 2.

Kāmaçāstra, by Vātsyāyana, 284, 285, 334, 335.

Kārya, dénouement, 298.

Kāla, equivalent to Horā, 146.

Kālanā, in Açvaghoṣa, 86.

Kāvya, as influencing drama, 283, 284.

Kāvya, a type of drama, 351.

Kāvyanirṇaya, by Dhanika, 293.

Kāvyaprakāça, by Mammaṭa, 171, 295, n. 1.

Kāvyamīmāṅsā, by Rājaçekhara, 232, 271, 287, 288.

Kāvyādarça, by Daṇḍin, 104.

Kāçikā Vṛtti, cites Candra’s grammar, 168.

Kāçirājñe, irregular compounds in Bhāsa, 121.

Kirātārjunīya, by Bhāravi, 194.

Kirātārjunīya, by Vatsarāja, 265.

Kilakiñcita, hysteria, 310.

Kiçça, in Açvaghoṣa, 86.

Kissa, in Bhāsa, 122.

Kīrti, fame, 84.

Kīrtikaumudī, by Someçvara, 248, n. 7.

Kīrtimañjarī, an allegorical character, 254.

Kuṭila, metre, 346.

Kuṭṭanīmata, by Dāmodaragupta, 171.

Kuṭṭamita, pretended anger, 310.

Kundamālā, 341.

Kumāra, prince royal, 312.

Kumārasambhava, by Kālidāsa, 75, 146, 147, 167, 284, 285, 312, 352.

Kuçīlava, actor, 31, 360, 363.

Kṛṣṇavijaya, by Ven̄kaṭavarada, 267.

Kṛṣṇābhyudaya, by Lokanātha Bhaṭṭa, 268.

Kaiçikī (‘of the Kaiçikas’, Lévi, TI, i. 333), graceful (manner), 326, 327.

Komalā, style, 333.

Komudagandha, 86.

Kauṭilīya Arthaçāstra, 102, 291, n. 2, 334, 364.

Kautukaratnākara, written under Lakṣmaṇa Māṇikyadeva, 263.

Kautukasarvasva, by Gopīnātha Cakravartin, 262.

Kaumudīmitrāṇanda, by Rāmacandra, 225, 258, 259.

Krimi, Buddhist irregularity for kṛmi, 86.

Krodha, anger, as basis of sentiment, 323.

Kṣ, treatment of, in various Prākrits, 86, 88, 122, 212.

Kṣobha, agitation of mind, 320.