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Essay name: Bhasa (critical and historical study)

Author: A. D. Pusalker

This book studies Bhasa, the author of thirteen plays ascribed found in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series. These works largely adhere to the rules of traditional Indian theatrics known as Natya-Shastra.

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� 255 the Prat at some length in order to enable the readers to
find for themselves the changes introduced by the poet in
the story of the epic. The valkala incident in the first
act and the presence of Satrughna at the coronation are
the poet's innovations.' The second act brings to
Dasaratha on his death-bed the vision of his ancestors
who have come to carry him off to the region of the manes.
The third act (in which Bharata is shown as younger
than Lakṣmaṇa) dealing with
with
the statue-houses is
exclusively the creation of our poet, as also the novel
method of abduction by bringing Rāma and Rāvana
together and making the golden deer necessary for the
śrāddha ceremony of Dasaratha; Lakṣmaṇa has been
kept out. Then Sumantra is again made to visit Dandaka
after Sītā's abduction and the scene between Bharata and
Kaikeyi after hearing the news, and Kaikeyi's explanation
of the curse and her slip in saying 'years' instead of
days', Bharata's preparing for an expedition with a large
army to vanquish Rāvana, are the innovations in
the sixth act. The coronation of Rāma in the forest
where Bharata, his mothers, and the citizens from
Ayodhya attend, as also Bibhīṣaṇa, Sugrīva, Hanuman,
etc., and Rāma's assuming the reins of government,
and the journey of the whole assembly to Ayodhyā
in the Puspaka æroplane for celebrating the ceremony
a grand scale,-are the deviations in the last act.
There are similar changes in characterization also.
All the characters in the Prat, though quite human,
appear on an elevated plane as compared with the
Rāmāyaṇa. Thus, e. g., Rāma has been shown more
noble and dignified and more devoted to his father by
his leaving for the forest without any ill comment, and
by making him hunt for the golden deer for the sake of
śräddha, instead of in obedience to his wife's wishes, as
pictured by the Rāmāyaṇa, cf. II. 21. 57-59; 22. 12-13;
III. 43. 9-21; 24-50.
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गुरुश्� राजा � पिता � वृद्धः
आर्यपुत्राभिरामोऽस� मृगो हरति मे मन� �
क्रोधात् प्रहर्षादथवापि कामात् ।। आनयैनं महाबाह� क्रीडाथै नो भविष्यति ॥३.४३.� �
[guruśca rājā ca pitā ca vṛddha�
āryaputrābhirāmo'sau mṛgo harati me mana� |
krodhāt praharṣādathavāpi kāmāt || ānayaina� mahābāho krīḍāthai no bhaviṣyati ||3.43.6 ||
]
KI11.83.8||
1 Prof. Paranjape proposes to read Satrughna as "the vanquisher of the
enemies"
(Pratima, Poona, 1927, notes, p. 91); but to us the views expressed by
Prof. Pisharoti (QJMS, 11, p. 864; 12, p. 385) seem to be sound. There is no
necessity for the poet to follow the epic; and again Bharata's speech (Act III, p. 58,
कि शत्रुघ्न� मामभिगतः �) [ki śatrughno māmabhigata� |) ] renders it probable that Satrughna was at Ayodhyā while he was
visiting it after being summoned there after his father's death. Cf. also Devdhar,
Pratima, Poona, 1930, notes, p. 64.

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