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The Natya Shastra is an ancient Indian treatise on the performing arts, encompassing theatre, dance, and music.
The Ashta-Nayika is a collective name for eight types of nayika s or heroines as classified by Bharata in his Sanskrit treatise on performing arts - Natya Shastra. The eight nayikas represent eight different states (avastha) in relationship to her hero or nayaka. [1] As archetypal states of the romantic heroine, it has been used as theme in ...
Indian classical dance, or Shastriya Nritya, is an umbrella term for different regionally-specific Indian classical dance traditions, rooted in predominantly Hindu musical theatre performance, [1][2][3] the theory and practice of which can be traced to the Sanskrit text Natya Shastra. [4][5][6] The number of Indian classical dance styles ranges ...
Natya Shastra is attributed to the ancient scholar Bharata Muni, and its first complete compilation is dated to between 500 BCE and 200 CE, [25] [26] but estimates vary between 500 BCE and 500 CE. [27] Richmond et al. estimate the Natasutras to have been composed around 600 BCE. [7]
Abhinaya (Sanskrit abhi- 'towards' + nii- 'leading/guide') is the art of expression in Indian aesthetics. More accurately it means "leading an audience towards" the experience (bhava) of a sentiment (rasa). The concept, derived from Bharata Muni 's Natya Shastra, is used as an integral part of all Indian classical dance styles.
The Natya Shastra mentions six rasa in one section, but in the dedicated section on rasa it states and discusses eight primary rasa. [2] [3] Each rasa, according to Nātyasāstra, has a presiding deity and a specific colour. There are 4 pairs of rasas. For instance, Hāsya arises out of Sringara.
The Natya Shastra, a text dealing with performative theory, also applies to itself the label of "Fifth Veda" (1.4) although strictly speaking, it is a branch of the Gandharvaveda, an upaveda of the Samaveda (Monier-Williams).
The earliest surviving text with Kathak roots is the Natya Shastra, [22] attributed to sage Bharata. Its first complete compilation is dated to between 200 BCE and 200 CE, [23] [24] but estimates vary between 500 BCE and 500 CE. [25] The most studied version of the Natya Shastra text consists of about 6000 verses structured into 36 chapters.