A Note on the Sanskrit Monologue-Play (Bhana), with special reference to the Caturbhani
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9277791 |
|---|---|
| Authors | S K De (0000-0003-2010-3720, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1926 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-90 |
| Publication date | 1926-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-869X • E-ISSN: 2051-2066 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0035869x0005557x |
| OpenAlex | W2316720157 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Popular and (as attested by theory) undoubtedly old as the bhāṇa must have been, the specimens of this form of composition which have been hitherto known to exist belong to comparatively recent times. Considerable importance, therefore, attaches to the discovery and publication (1922) of four bhāṇas . under the title Caturbhāṇī , by M. Ramakrishna Kavi and S. K. Ramanatha Sastri from Śivapurī, for which great antiquity is claimed by the editors and which, whatever might be their date, are certainly older than any of the late existing specimens. The Caturbhāṇī consists of Ubhayâbhisārikā (Ubh), Padma-prābhṛtaka (Pp), Dhūrtaviṭa-saṃvāda (Dvs) and Pāda-tāḍitaka ( Pt ), ascribed respectively, on the authority chiefly of a traditional verse, to Vararuci. Śūdraka, Īśvaradatta and Śyāmilaka. Professor Keith, in his recently published Sanskrit Drama (p. 185, fn. 3), throws doubt on the first two ascriptions, and declares rather dogmatically that “ none of these plays need be older than a.d. 1000”
Art · Drama · Literature · Sanskrit · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy · Study and Philosophy of Religion
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2020 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |