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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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Dakṣiṇa, courteous (hero), 307.

Daṇḍaka, metre, 123, 187, n. 2, 203.

Dambha, falsity, as a character, 252.

Daridracārudatta, 104, 306, and see Cārudatta.

Darç, in Bhāsa’s Prākrit, 122.

Daçakumāracarita, by Daṇḍin, 55, 129, 133, 363.

Daçarūpa, by Daṇḍin, 71, 169, 221, 223, 292, 293, 294, 304, 315, 319, 320, 330, 334, 335, 336, 341, 342, 348, 349.

Daçarūpāvaloka, by Dhanaṁjaya, 346.

Dākṣiṇātyā, a Prākrit, 141, 166, 336.

Dānakelikaumudī, by Rūpa Gosvāmin, 268.

Dāni, dāṇi, Prākrit forms, 88, 89.

Dikpālastuti, praise of the world guardians, 369.

Digvijaya, conquest of the earth, of Raghu, 144.

Dissadi, in Açvaghoṣa, 89;
dīsadi, in Bhāsa, 121.

Dīpaka, a figure of speech, 331.

Dīptarasa, sentiment of excitement, 265.

Dīvyant, gamblers, speech of, 141, 336.

Duguṇa, irregular form in Açvaghoṣa, 88.

Durmallikā, a form of drama, 351.

Duṣṭa, a character in Buddhist drama, 74, 84;
Prākrit of, 86.

Duhitṛkā, puppet, 53.

Dūta, messenger, 311, 312.

Dūtaghaṭotkaca, by Bhāsa, 94, 97, 98, 106, 107.

Dūtavākya, by Bhāsa, 73, 94, 106, 111, 270. [398]

Dūtān̄gada, by Dhanaṁjaya, 55, 56, 269, 270.

Deva, as style of the king, 314.

Devī, queen, 312.

Devva, in Bhāsa’s Prākrit, 122.

Deçabhāṣā, vernacular, when used, 334.

Doṣa, defects of style, 332.

Dy, represented in Açvaghoṣa by yy, 88.

Drāviḍī, speech, 337.

Drutavilambita, metre, 123, 160, 181, 203, 219.

Druti, melting, as a mental condition, 320.

Dvigūḍhaka, harmonious song, 338.

Dvipadās, music, 339.

Dvimūḍhaka, a kind of song, 338.