Essay name: Sanskrit dramas by Kerala authors (Study)
Author:
S. Subramania Iyer
Affiliation: University of Kerala / Faculty of Oriental Studies
This essay represents and English study of the Sanskrit dramas by Kerala authors. The influence that Sanskrit has exerted on the people of Kerala in their cultural, social and literary fields is of great significance to them. This thesis traces the history of the Sanskrit drama in Kerala produced from the 9th century A.D.
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harmonious blending known as sandhis end their various 13 sandhyangas. The sage says that a plot, which is not properly
designed can effect in the world of drama only, what a lame men
can accomplish in the battlefield.
अङ्गहीनो नर� यद्युद्धारम्भेऽक्षमो भवेत� [aṅgahīno naro yadyuddhārambhe'kṣamo bhavet ] !
अङ्गहीनं तथ� काव्यं � प्रयोगक्षम� भवेत� � [aṅgahīna� tathā kāvya� na prayogakṣama� bhavet || ] 10
Bharata gives the greatest importance to the sentiment.
He says that there can be no work of art without the delines-
tion of sentiment in it. Abhinavagupta elucidates the point
further and says that the sage undoubtedly meant that rase is
11 the soul of drama though he does not express it verbally.
Bharata lays down that theplaywright must bring the
various incidents of the plot together solely with reference
to the sentiment appropriate to them.
यथासन्धि तु कार्याणि कर्तव्यान्येतान्यङ्गान� नाटक�
कविभिः काव्यकुशलै� रसभावमवेक्ष्� तु �
[yathāsandhi tu kāryāṇi kartavyānyetānyaṅgāni nāṭake
kavibhi� kāvyakuśalai� rasabhāvamavekṣya tu ||
] Again, while enumerating the essentials of a play,
he gives the first place to rasa.
रस� भावाद्यभिनयाधर्मी वृत्ति प्रवृत्तयः [rasā bhāvādyabhinayādharmī vṛtti pravṛttaya� ] !
सिद्धि� स्वरास्तथातोद्यं गानं रङ्ग� सङ्ग्रहः �
[siddhi� svarāstathātodya� gāna� raṅgadha saṅgraha� ||
] 10 S Vol.III, V.53, p.32.
11 Dhvanyaloka locene, uddyota-III, p. 401, Benares, 1940.
12 On.ait. Ch. XIX, V.104, p.61.
13 NS, Vol. I, Ch.VI, V.10, p.263.
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