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DRAMA IN ANCIENT INDIA: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

    1 Author(s):  DR. ARUN KUMAR

Vol -  7, Issue- 7 ,         Page(s) : 307 - 310  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

Drama has been an integral part of ancient Indian culture. In fact the dramas reflected the social milieu of its time. The origin of the Indian theatre is still obscure. It is certain, how-ever, that even in the Vedic period dramatic performances of some kind were given, passing references in early sources point to the en-action at festivals of religious legends, perhaps only in dance and mime. Some writers have found elements in common between the Indian and the classical Greek theatre. The curtain at the back of the stage was called yavanika, a diminutive form of the name by which the Greeks were generally known in India. One play at least, “The Little Clay Cart”, has a superficial resemblance to the late Greek comedy of the school of Menander. We cannot wholly reject possibility that Greek comedies, acted at the courts of the Greco-Bactrian kings of N.-W.India, inspired unknown Indian poets to develop their own popular stage into a courtly art form.

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