Essay name: Bhasa (critical and historical study)
Author: A. D. Pusalker
This book studies Bhasa, the author of thirteen plays ascribed found in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series. These works largely adhere to the rules of traditional Indian theatrics known as Natya-Shastra.
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as, even according to the warrior (bha峁璦), would
render another person liable to lose his life at the hands
of Duryodhana (v. 32). Finally, when Ghatotkaca is
too much enraged and is ready to fight with all the
Kauravas, Dh峁泃ar膩峁ａ弓ra pleads with him to restrain
himself. Is any Kerala plagiarist capable of such dramatic
sense and psychological outlook? Dr.
that "the message
brings in the final verse (taking the place of Bharatav膩kya)
is quite out of place "." But this is not so.
Ghatotkaca
delivers the message of Krsna to Dh峁泃ar膩峁ａ弓ra (p. 65) to
which a reference is already made above. The next
message is to Duryodhana (v. 43, p. 67) and finally
to
all the Kauravas, the first part of which serves as being
capable of universal application. Janardana enjoins
all
the kings to follow the rules of righteous
conduct:
啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ 啶膏ぎ啶距啶� 啶椸啶班 ( [dharma sam膩cara guru (] read 啶曕啶班) 啶膏啶掂啶ㄠえ啷嵿く啶啶曕啶粪ぞ啶�
[kuru) svajananyapek峁Ｄ佱箖
] of Krsna which he internitz says
啶い啷� 啶曕ぞ啶傕啷嵿し啶苦い啶� 啶え啶膏た 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶た啶灌ぞ啶ㄠ啶むた啶粪啶� 啷�
[yat k膩峁僰峁ta峁� manasi sarvamih膩nuti峁ａ弓ha |
] 66 (v. 52).
The drama, no doubt, ends abruptly and the last verse,
as stated by Dr. Winternitz, is quite out of place;" this
may be due to the mangling by some C膩ky膩r, into whose
hands these plays fell.
脺搁鲍叠贬础狈骋础.
Title. The smashing (bhanga) of the thighs (奴ru)
of Duryodhana in the club-fight is described in this drama
and hence the title is most appropriate.
Plot. Three warriors enter the stage after the stage-
manager has finished his preliminaries and between
themselves give a detailed description of the battle-
field
on the eighteenth day of the great Kuru War. The
whole battle-ground was full of corpses and of jackals
and vultures gathered to eat flesh from the dead bodies.
Some noise is heard behind the curtain which is identified
later on as that produced by the terrible mace-fight
between Bhima and Duryodhana. The warriors turn
their
paces to the place where the club-fight is going on
in
the presence of Vy膩sa, Vidura, Balar膩ma and K峁涐梗峁嘺.
They
then describe the fight very realistically. In the opinion of
1 BRRI, 5. p. 8.
