01304nam a2200253Ia 4500 OSt 20260601153657.0 210210b1996 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 81 7201 943 2 AL AL English S891.9 VATB VATSYAYAN (Kapila). 264911 Bharata: the natyasastra. ND Sahitya Akademi 1996 x,218 Natya Shastra is one of the ancient and complete treatises on the performing arts. Written in Sanskrit and composed around two millennia ago, the book consists of 36 chapters with a cumulative total of 6000 poetic verses and covers almost all aspects of performances. In this seminal work, Dr Kapil Vatsayan provides an in-depth analysis of Bharata's Natya Sastra and asks fundamental questions not only on the Natyasastra but on the nature of the Indian textual tradition. The book re-examines issues of authorship, dating, primary material, orality and text and it places the text in the context of an overarching worldview and analyses with incisive sharpness, the structure of the text. the 264912 natyasastra. 264913 Bharata: 264914 Sanskrit Criticism 264915 052600 ddc BK 101174 101174 0 0 ddc 0 0 Sanskrit AL AL Sanskrit Literature 2021-02-17 150.00 1 S891.9 VATB 052600 2021-10-26 00:00:00 2021-10-11 2021-02-17 BK