[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955) › c19.s1.15 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s1.15 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s1.15 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.15) A second Kulaśekhara from Kerala (935-55) wrote two dramas—\*Tapatīsaṃvaraṇa\* and \*Subhadrādhanañjaya\*—which dramatized minor incidents from the \*Mahābhārata\* in a very stage-worthy form. Kulaśekhara was also the author of a prose work \*Āścarya-mañjarī\* cited in a Bengali commentary (A.D. 1159) on the \*Amarakośa\*. In his time according to tradition there was a reform in the mode of staging Sanskrit dramas by the Chākkiyārs; they are professional actors, who appear to have been a survival in Kerala of the older institution of \*sūtas\* who recited the Purāṇas to popular audiences. The repertoire of the Chākkiyārs included the \*Mattavilāsa\*, \*Bhagavadajjuka\* and \*Kalyāṇasaugandhika\*, among others. - [Previous: c19.s1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.14) - [Next: c19.s1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.16) - [Up: c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1) ## Linked texts (6) - [Tibetan translation ('Chi med mdzod)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.kosa.paryaya.amarakosa*bo) — Classical Tibetan - [Mattavilāsaprahasana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.mattavilasa) — Mahendravarman I, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Tapatīsaṃvaraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bharata.tapatisamvarana) — Kulaśekharavarman, Sanskrit - [Subhadrādhanañjaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bharata.subhadradhananjaya) — Kulaśekharavarman, Sanskrit - [Kalyāṇasaugandhika](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.vyayoga.kalyanasaugandhika) — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s1.15) · Pramāṇa