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Bhasa's plays had been lost for centuries until the manuscripts were rediscovered in 1910 by the Indian scholar Ganapati Shastri. [4] Bhāsa had previously only been known from mentions in other works, such as the Rajashekhara 's Kāvya-mimāmsā , which attributes the play Swapnavāsavadattam to him.
Bhāṣā (or one of its derived forms) is the word for "language" in many South and Southeast Asian languages, which derives from the Sanskrit word bhāṣā (भाषा) meaning "speech" or "spoken language". In transliteration from Sanskrit or Pali, bhasa may also be spelled bhasa, basa, or phasa.
All major Sanskrit plays such as that of Bhasa, Sri Harsha, Shakti Bhadra etc. are performed in Koodiyattam. Guru Nātyāchārya Vidūshakaratnam Padma Shri Māni Mādhava Chākyār choreographed and directed plays like Kalidasa's Abhijñānaśākuntala , Vikramorvaśīya and Mālavikāgnimitra ; Bhasa's Swapnavāsadatta and Pancharātra for ...
Bhashya (Sanskrit: भाष्य, Bhāṣya) is a "commentary" or "exposition" of any primary or secondary text in ancient or medieval Indian literature. [1] Common in Sanskrit literature, Bhashyas are also found in other Indian languages such as Tamil.
Svapnavasavadattam is a sequel to the Bhāsa's another play Pratijnayaugandharayana (The Pledge of Minister Yaugandharayana) which describes in four acts the events culminating in the marriage of Udayana and Vasavadatta which was brought about by the efforts of Yaugandharayana, Udayana's minister.
The Sanskrit poet Nannaya, who lived around 400 CE, has mentioned Bhasa in his works, and this suggests Bhasa may have lived around 350 CE. [1] However, many scholars disagree, and opine that Bhasa lived around the 7th to 8th centuries CE, placing the play's creation within the same time period. [2]
Karnabharam is the shortest and the least action-oriented among the plays written by Bhasa. [10]Major elements of this play are the Mangala Shloka, Prologue, Entry of the soldier, Anguish of Karna, Curse of Parashurama, Finding of inner brilliance by Karna, Donation of Kavacha and Kundala, Receiving of Vimala power and Bharat Vakya.
Pratijnayaugandharayana was rediscovered, along with Bhāsa's 12 other plays, in 1912 by Indian scholar T. Ganapati Sastri. [6] [7] As with other plays of Bhasa, the name of the author does not appear in the prologue of the play or anywhere else in the extant manuscripts.