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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Hallisaka was their special dance on these occasions,
wherein youths of both sexes participated. Old herdsmen
acted as spectators for these mixed dances in which the
youngsters appeared in their best dresses.' These
cowherds were susceptible to common superstitions, and
the shrill crowing of a crow facing the sun on a dry branch
of a dry tree was an inauspicious omen to them. They
resided in the suburbs and had plenty of milk and its
products, fruit, root, etc. Their humble dwellings appeared
as quite sam峁沝dha to them, and their prayers are for
peace and blessings and freedom from harm to the divine
cows and to their own families."
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1 Pa帽c, pp. 48-52; also, B膩l pp. 38-42. 2 Pa帽c, p, 48. 3 The word
'Pakka峁嘺' apparently means 'residence of a Candala'; but in the B膩l, it signifies 'huts
or cottages similar to those of the Candalas. In the Pa帽c, however, we think the
word Pakkana, signifies residence of a Cand膩la (contra, Ganapati Sastri,
Pa帽c, p. 52, Com.) as the cowherds have come out for celebrating birthday of
their king, and it is at the approach of the Kuru army that in their hurry they
speak of entering the residences of the Cand膩las.
