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in parasite ministers, Buddhist monks and nuns, servants of the harem, dwarfs, mutes,
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A Sanskrit drama always opens with a nandi, or benediction, usually addressed to
Ganesh or Shiva for the prosperity of the audience by the Sutradhara or director. At the
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end of the nandi the Sutradhar compliments the audience on their critical ability and
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introduces one of the characters of the play, after which the action goes on with the
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regular divisions into acts and scenes. Scenes are marked by the exit of one person and
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the entrance of another, as on the classical and the French stage, and the stage is never
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left empty until the end of the act. The theory of unity of time, place and action, which
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played so important a part in the Greek drama, appears in rather a modified form in
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Write Your Story / Article Sanskrit drama flourished between 200 B.C. and about 700 A.D. No other theatre in
the world has had such a long and continuous history. Many attempts are being made
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to rescicate and reinterpret our classic drama. Sanskrit plays of Bhasa are performed in
pure classical Kudi-Attam style with all medieval stage-sets in Sanskrit itself by
university students. Vijaya Mehta produced Mudra Rakshasa in Marathi,
reconstructing Bharata’s stage-form, Bhagvadujjikiyam was produced as a force in
Gujarati by Shanta Gandhi. Mrcchakatika has been staged in Delhi in several stytles
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like the Nautanki in Hindustani Theatre by the late Qudsia Zaidi and by the National
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Health Given the importance of Sanskrit theatre in the history of Indian stage, one could have
Churches expected the drama to inspire at least some of the playwrights investigating the
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