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N膩rada. Damodara offers him arghya and padya. The
divine sage identifies D膩modara with N膩r膩ya峁嘺, pays his
respects to the Lord and goes back to the heavens. The
usual epilogue ends the play. (Act V).
Deviations. As the precise source of the Bal is not
known, it cannot be stated to what extent the poet is
indebted to the oral traditions about 碍峁涐梗峁嘺. The miracle
of the divided waters is the poet's invention as found in
the Abh. Dr. Winternitz says that some of the miraculous
incidents are found embodied in so late a work as the
Premasagara; this shows that most probably they are
invented by the author of the play especially as they are not
found recorded in the Pur膩峁嘺s or the Harivamsa. Non-
mention of R膩dh膩 and the absence of the erotic element
take the B膩l to a very early period. In the story as we
get it in the Mbh and the Pur膩nas, K峁涐梗峁嘺 is stated as
the eighth issue; the daughter of Nanda Gopa is not
apparently dead at first. The miracles of the light
emanating from the child, of the divided waters, and of
the waters rushing out of the ground,-which are some of
the feats of Krsna, are not found in the accounts of K峁涐梗峁嘺
as we have them in the Hariva峁兣沘, the Pur膩峁嘺s, and the
Mbh.
Type of drama. The Bal is a Nataka, based on a
prakhy膩ta plot, the hero being dhirod膩tta. Though
there are some female characters in the play, there is no
heroine and no 艢rng膩ra. In showing the fights, struggles
and deaths on the stage, the B膩l contravenes the direct
prohibitions of the text-books on dramaturgy.
Sankar峁�a峁嘺-kath膩 serves as the secondary incident
(pat膩k膩) to the main story of the adventures of child
碍峁涐梗峁嘺.
Sentiments etc. The main sentiment is V墨ra, and
there are found at various places Adbhuta (the appearance
of the various weapons, as also some of the supernatural
feats of K峁涐梗峁嘺); Karuna (Devaki's lamentation);
Raudra and Bhayanaka ( Kamsa's visions, terrible
explosions, etc.); Hasya (the old cowherd); Santa and
Bhakti (general devotion for N膩r膩ya峁嘺, Vi峁ａ箛u); etc.
It may be stated in general that excepting Srng膩ra, there
1 BRRI, 5, p. 10. 2 Cf. Konow, IA, 49, p. 234; Weller, Introduction,
German translation, p. 13; Woolner and Sarup, Thirteen Trivandrum Plays, Volume
2, p. 109; Winternitz, CR, December 1924, p. 331.