The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c23.12

c23.12

Eclecticism of classical age of Sanskrit literature, 284. Egoism, as a character, 252. Ekbatana, Greek artistes at, 59. Elements of the plot (arthaprakṛti), 298, 299. Elephant, artificial, to contain men, 327; terrifies people in the street, 264. Elephants, escape of, as dramatic motif, 193, 257. Elision of consonants, not in Aṣvaghoṣa, 86; in Bhāsa, 121; with compensatory lengthening, 121. Emotion (bhāva), 277, 278, 296, 316-26. Energy (utsāha), as basis of heroic sentiment, 323. Enigma (nālikā), 329. Epics, and the drama, 27, 28-31, 42, 45, 47, 49, 58, 63, 75, 76, 281, 282, 297, original form of, 21-3. Epidicus, of Plautus, 64. Episode (patākā), 297, 298, 299. Equivoke, as dramatic motif, 304. Erotic (śṛṅgāra), sentiment, 278, 323, 324, 346, 347, 349, 350, 351; metre and style appropriate to, 331, 332. Eunuchs, 313; in the Prahasana, 348. Euripides, 59, 196, 197, 279, n. 1, 282. Exalted, hero, 305, 306. Excitement, sentiment of, 265. Exegesis, as an allegorical character, 252. Expansion (bindu), as element of the plot, 298, 346.