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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]

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Ç, for s in Māgadhī, 86, 122, 212.

Çaṅs, recite, used of Ṛgveda, 20.

Çakāra, miles gloriosus, 65, 69, 134, 166, 311, 336.

Çakuntalā, by Kālidāsa, 62, 66, 70, 124, 139, 147, 152–5, 157–9, 160, 161, 167, 272, 278, 281, 297, 298, 299, 302, 303, 304, 311, 325, 329, 340, 344, 365.

Çakvarī, metre, appropriate to the pathetic sentiment, 331.

Çaṭha, deceitful (hero), 307.

Çatapatha Brāhmaṇa, tale of Purūravas in, 22.

Çarmiṣṭhāyayāti, by Kṛṣṇa Kavi, 268.

Çākārī, a Prākrit, 141, 142, 166, 337.

Çānta, calm (hero), 305, 306;
sentiment, 324.

Çānti Parvan, allusion to drama in, 28.

Çābarī, a Prākrit, 337.

Çāradātilaka, by Çan̄kara, 263, 348.

Çāradvatīputraprakaraṇa or Çāriputraprakaraṇa, by Açvaghoṣa, 80, 83, 85, 346.

Çārdūlavikrīḍita, metre, 123, 142, 166, 181, 185, 203, 212, 219, 232, 236, 240, 253, 258, 272.

Çālabhañjikā, statue, 234.

Çālinī, metre, 123, 168, 181, 203.

Çikṣāpada, moral rules of the Buddhists, 184.

Çikhariṇī, metre, 123, 142, 166, 181, 203, 212, 219, 240, 246.

Çilpaka, a form of drama, 351.

Çivanārāyaṇabhañjamahodaya, by Narasiṅha, 257.

Çiṣyalekhā, by Candra, 168.

Çuddha, type of Viṣkambhaka, 301.

Çūdrakavadha, a Parikathā, 129, n. 4.

Çṛn̄gāra, love as a sentiment, 323.

Çṛn̄gāratilaka, by Rāmabhadra Dīkṣita, 263.

Çṛn̄gārabhūṣaṇa, by Vāmana Bhaṭṭa Bāṇa, 263.

Çṛn̄gāramañjarī, a Bhāṇa, 263, n. 2.

Çṛn̄gāramañjarī, a Saṭṭaka, by Viçveçvara, 257.

Çṛn̄gāramañjarī, cited in the Rasārṇavasudhākara, 338, n. 1.

Çṛn̄gārasarvasva, by Nallā Kavi, 263, 264.

Çṛṇvam, in Açvaghoṣa for çṛṇvan (çṛṇvaṁ), 86.

Çailāli Brāhmaṇa, 31.

Çailūṣa, actor, 25, 360.

Çoka, sorrow, as basis of sentiment, 323.

Çobhanikas, actors, 32–5.

Çobhā, brilliance as quality of the hero, 307.

Çobhā, distinction of poem, 334.

Çaubhikas, kind of actors, 32–5, 45, 53, 55, 273, 360.

Çaurasenī, a Prākrit, 41, 70, 73, 74, 88, 89, 141, 166, 181, 185, 203, 211, 212, 219, 236, 240, 335, 336, 367.

Çyāma, dark colour of the erotic sentiment, 324.

Çraddhā, faith, as a character, 252.

Çrīkaṇṭhacarita, by Man̄kha, 75, n. 3, 225.

Çrīgadita, a type of drama, 268, 351.

Çrīdāmacarita, by Sāmarāja Dīkṣita, 247.

Çreṣṭhin, guildsmen, or rich merchants, speech of, 87, 141, 336.

Çleṣa, flow of style, 331.

Çloka, metre, 123, 142, 166, 181, 185, 203, 212, 219, 236, 240, 246, 272.