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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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BH

Bhakti, trust (in Viṣṇu), as a character, 252, 253.

Bhagavant, as style of address, 314.

Bhagavāṁ, Buddhist irregularity for bhagavān, 86.

Bhaṭṭa, as style of the king, 314.

Bhaṭṭā, vocative of bhartṛ in Açvaghoṣa, 88.

Bhaṭṭidālaka, style of princes of the blood, 84, and see Bhartṛdāraka.

Bhaṭṭinī, style of the queen, 314.

Bhaṇ, conjugated in the 9th class, 88.

Bhadradatta, as style of Çakas, 314.

Bhadramukha, title in dramas, 69, 71, 314.

Bhaya, terror, as basis of sentiment, 323.

Bhayānaka, fear, as a sentiment, 319, 324.

Bharatavākya, at close of the drama, 82, 83, 111, 265.

Bhartṛdāraka, style of princes of the blood, 314, and see Bhaṭṭidālaka.

Bhartṛdārikā, style of a princess, 314.

Bhartṛharinirveda, by Harihara, 248.

Bhavatī (Prākrit, bhodi), as style of the queen and her ladies, 314.

Bhavāṁ, as nominative in Açvaghoṣa, 88.

Bhāgavata Purāṇa, 100, 272, 274.

Bhāṇa, monologue, 263, 264, 280, 296, 311, 344, 348.

Bhāṇikā, 268, 351.

Bhārata, a rhapsode or comedian, 29, 30.

Bhāratī, verbal (manner), 326, 328, 329, 344;
in the Bhāṇa, 348.

Bhāratīya Nāṭyaçāstra, see Nāṭyaçāstra.

Bhāva, emotion, 296, 309, 316, 319.

Bhāva, mode of address, 361.

Bhāvaka, man of taste, 318, n. 3.

Bhāvakatva, power of realization, 317.

Bhāsanāṭakacakra, 92, n. 2.

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

Bhīmavikramavyāyoga, by Mokṣāditya, 266.

Bhuktivāda, doctrine of the enjoyment of sentiment, 318.

Bhujan̄gaprayāta, metre, 123.

Bhuṁjitaye, in Açvaghoṣa, 87.

Bhuvanābhyudaya, by Çan̄kuka, 291.

Bhūtabhāṣā, use of, 287.

Bhairavānanda, by Maṇika, 248.

Bhoginī, concubine, 312.

Bhojakatva, power of enjoyment, 317.

Bhojacarita, by Vedāntavāgīça, 345.

Bhrūkuṅsa, man playing female part, 36, 362.