The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c10.s5.3

c10.s5.3

Bhāsa, of course, is not in the slightest degree akin to a poet of the people; he is an accomplished master of the art of poetry, but one whose good sense and taste preserve him from adopting in drama the artifices which are permitted in the court epic and lyric which were intended to be studied at leisure. The simple and sententious is beloved of Bhāsa: thus Karṇa repels the objections of Ṣalya to his parting with armour and earring to the disguised Indra:¹