Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c6.12

v1.c6.12

We have, on the other hand, the tradition as well as the statement of Bhavabhūti, who refers to to the mythical Bharata as the *tauryatrika-sūtra-kāra*¹, that Bharata's work existed originally in the *sūtra*-form, which is also made likely by Pāṇini's early reference to such *naṭa-sūtras* in his own time. Reminiscences of the *sūtra*-style may indeed be presumed in the *Nāṭya-śāstra* vi and vii, which deal with *rasa* and *bhāva*; for in ch. vi we find a