Download or read book Thirteen Plays of Bhasa written by A. C. Woolner and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation is of thirteen Sanskrit plays discovered in South India by the late Pandit Ganapati Sastri and edited by him in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series. It comprises the following titles: 1. Pratijnayaugandharayana, 2. Svapnavasavadatta, 3. Carudatta, 4. Pancaratra, 5. Madhyamavyayoga, 6.Pratima-nataka, 7.Dutavakya, 8.Dutaghatotkaca, 9.Karnabhara, 10.Urubhanga, 11.Avimaraka, 12.Balacarita, and 13.Abhiseka. Sastri attributed all the thirteen plays to Bhasa and the prevailing opinion of the scholars is in agreement with him, though the available evidence is not conclusive and so the question still remains open. The translation was done by two eminent Sanskrit scholars. It was published s early as 1930 and a reprint is now issued in view of a persistent demand of scholars. Pandit Ganapati Sastri attributed all thirteen plays to Bhasa, a famous dramatist earlier than Kalidasa. Some verses are ascribed to Bhasa by medieval anthologies, but only ten with unanimity. We are told that he composed a Svapnavasavadattam (his best play) and that in another play the device of the wooden elephant was used. Characteristic features of his work are described by Bana, and other poets evidently held him in high estimation. One or two verses from his plays are quoted by writers on poetics. Otherwise, the text of BhasaÍs numerous plays had completely disappeared. The learned editor of the Trivandrum plays found that they contained a Svapnavasavadattam (the best play in the collection), and, in the Pratijna-Yaugandharayanam, a scene dealing with the wooden elephant. He noticed also certain peculiarities in the technique of the plays which he regarded as signs of antiquity. All these points confirmed the opinion that Bhasa was the author.
Download or read book Thirteen Plays of Bhasa written by Bhāsa and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirteen Plays of Bh sa written by Bhāsa and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bh sa written by V. Venkatachalam and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study on the plays of Bhāsa, classical Sanskrit dramatist.
Download or read book Bhasa written by G.S.Iyer and published by D C Books. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rediscovery of the 13 plays of Bhasa Mahakavi and their publication in Thiruvananthapuram in 1912 by Mahamahopadhyaya T. Ganapatisastri was as important an event in the recovery of India's cultural and literary history as was the deciphering of the Ashokan edicts in the 19th century in the recovery of India's political history. Bhasa was known from allusions by other poets and fragments stretching from the time of Kalidasa all the way to the 12th century. Inexplicably, he vanished from India's collective memory since then. At the same time, the reverence in which he was held is amply evident from the regularity of references to him and the unanimity of critics and rasikas on the superb quality of his work. The recovered Bhasa has now taken his rightful place in the stage and is presented again and again not only in Sanskrit but in most modern Indian languages too. It is an eloquent demonstration of his enduring power to move an audience, his undiminished relevance and, most important of all, the stunning stage worthiness of his works, the quality that raises him far above every other ancient dramatist of India known to us.
Download or read book The Shattered Thigh and Other Plays written by Bhāsa and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book Great Sanskrit Plays in Modern Translation written by P. Lal and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Lal has provided an introduction on the history and aesthetic theory of Sanskrit drama, individual prefaces for each play, a phonetic guide to the pronunciation of the Indian names, and a selective bibliography.
Download or read book Bhasnatakchakram Plays Ascribed to Bhasa written by Bhāsa and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1987 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bhasa the worthy predecessor of Kalidasa was to us a mere name until in the year 1912 the late Mahamahopadhyaya Ganapati Sastri claimed to have discovered thirteen plays written by Bhasa.It was in the nature of things that in the first sensation of this discovery so fraught with the most wide-reaching results for the history of sanskrit drama it should have been hailed by a chorus of applause to which both East and West joined their voices. If however there was an unreasoned and uncritical haste in propounding and supporting the theory there was also not lacking the nerve and the animus of a hot controversy in the arguments urged against the theory by those who declared these dramas to be the work of the later playwrights of Kerala.
Download or read book History of Indian Theatre Classical theatre written by Manohar Laxman Varadpande and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by Bhāsa and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth and fifth volumes of the Global History of Philosophy are
Download or read book The Nigha u and the Nirukta written by Yāska and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Svapna Vasavadattam The Dream of Vasavadatta written by Bhāsa and published by Global Vision Pub House. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Svapna-Vasavadattam, A Drama Of Six Acts Composed By Bhasa, Is Based On The Brihatakatha Of Gunadhya And Is Referred To In The Mahabharata. Bhasa Stands Preeminent For The Boldness Of His Conception, Insight Into Character And For Hs Homely Sparking Style. He Has Written About Thirteen Plays Of Which The Svapna-Vasavadatta Is Reckoned As A Masterpiece Both In Ancient Indian And Modern Criticism. Based On The Well-Known Love-Tale Of Udayana And Vasavadatta, Bhasa S Play Abounds In Dramatic Excitement, Suspense, Surprise And Humour.
Download or read book Bhasa written by V. Venkatachalam and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Monograph, The Author Presents, The Colourful Spectrum Of The Thirteen Plays Of Bhasa With A View To Projecting Some Of The Best Features Of BhasaýS Dramatic And Literary Art. Though Primarily Addressed To The General Reader, The Book Is Designed To Appeal Equally To The Interests Of Both The Common Intellectual And The Demands Of The Serious Student And The Specialist.
Download or read book Madhyama vyayoga written by Bhāsa and published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Chowkhamba. This book was released on 1999 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uttarar macharita written by Bhavabhūti and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bhasanatakacakram written by Bhāsa and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shattered Thigh Other Plays written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-01-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the earliest existing plays by a major dramatist in classical Sanskrit Bhasa is one of the most celebrated names in classical Sanskrit literature. He lived and wrote about two thousand years ago. Though his dates have not been conclusively established, it is certain that Bhasa preceded Kalidasa, the great poet and dramatist of ancient PBI - India, who has praised Bhasa by name in one of his own plays. Bhasa's works were considered lost and it was only in the beginning of the twentieth century that some of his plays were recovered. Six of these, which form the present collection, are based on the Mahabharata, which provides a thematic unity to the plays. Bhasa's strengths were his skilful melding of dialogue, legend and dramatic action. The comparatively short and fast-paced plays in The Shattered Thigh are remarkable in their nearness to modern idiom despite their antiquity. Of the six plays in this collection four—The Middle One, The Envoy, The Message and Karna's Burden—are one-act plays evoking tragic and heroic emotions. Five Nights and The Shattered Thigh have three and two acts respectively. The latter is a tragedy in which the hero dies on stage, an innovation that is very unusual in Sanskrit drama.
