The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c7.s3.14

c7.s3.14

Both in the Greek and the Sanskrit drama the essential fact in the contest, from which their origin may thus be traced, is the existence of a conflict. (In the Greek drama in its development this conflict came to dominate the play, and in the Indian drama this characteristic is far less prominent.) But it is distinctly present in all the higher forms of the art, and we can hardly doubt that it was from this conflict that these higher forms were evolved from the simplicity of the early material out of which the drama rose.