The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c18.15
The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c18.15
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c18.15
Limited by the nature of the intellectual movement which produced it, the Sanskrit drama could never achieve the perfection of Greek tragedy or comedy. Kālidāsa, greatest of Indian dramatists, experiences no uneasiness at the structure of life or the working of the world. He accepts without question or discontent the fabric of Indian society. When Goethe writes of him: