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The Sanskrit drama

Chapter 163: R
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]

R

R and l in the Prākrits, 86, 87, 88, 122, 212, 219;
as affecting the quality of style, 332.

Raghuvaṅça, by Kālidāsa, 75, 144, 162, 352.

Ran̄gadvāra, part of preliminaries, 340, 342.

Ran̄gāvataraṇa, appearing on the stage, 55.

Rajas, element of passion, 318.

Rati, love, as basis of sentiment, 323.

Ratnāvalī, by Harṣa, 55, 62, 103, 170, 171, 173, 175, 180, 221, 298, 299, 304, 325, 328, 340, 350, 361, 362, 368.

Rathoddhatā, metre, 167, 203.

Rasa, sentiment, 296, 314–26.

Rasataran̄giṇī, by Bhānudatta, 319.

Rasārṇavasudhākara, by Çin̄ga Bhūpāla, 294.

Rasika, men of taste, 318, n. 3.

Rājaputras, speech of, 87, 141, 336.

Rājapraçniya, 44, n. 2.

Rājarājanāṭaka, 251, n. 1.

Rājaçrī, the kingly fortune, personified, 99, 112. [402]

Rājyaçrī, the royal fortune, 255.

Rāmānanda, 343, n. 1.

Rāmābhyudaya, by Vyāsa Çrīrāmadeva, 270.

Rāmāyaṇa, by Vālmīki, 28, 29, 30, 42, 48, 50, 63, 76, 101, 105, 114, 150, n. 1.

Rāṣṭriya, as title in dramas, 69, 71.

Rāsa, a dance, 274.

Rāsamaṇḍala, 40.

Rukmiṇīpariṇaya, by Rāmavarman, 247.

Rukmiṇīharaṇa, by Vatsarāja, 266, 267.

Rasasadana, a Bhāṇa, 264.

Rucirā, metre, 166, 185, 212.

Rudantī, irregular form in Bhāsa, 121.

Rūpa, in Açoka’s edict, 54;
object of vision, source of Rūpaka, 296.

Rūpaka, generic name of the drama as a spectacle, 296, 345.

Rūpadakkha, meaning of, 54.

Rūpājīva, epithet of actors, 363.

Rūpopajīvana, sense of, 54.

Rūpopajīvin, one who lives on the beauty (of his wife), 55.

Raudra, fury as a sentiment, 323, 354.

Raudratā, harshness, as a character, 255.

Ry becomes yy in Açvaghoṣa and Bhāsa, jj in Kālidāsa, 122;
but jj in Açvaghoṣa’s Māgadhī, 86;
in Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa, 219.