The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c7.s5.36

c7.s5.36

The number of actors is certainly not in accord with the Greek practice; not only has Bhāsa large numbers, but the *Çakuntalā* has thirty, the *Mṛcchakaṭikā* twenty-nine, the *Vikramorvaçī* eighteen, the *Mudrārākṣasa* twenty-four, and it is only in the later and less inventive Bhavabhūti that we find but thirteen in the *Mālatīmādhava* and eleven in the *Uttararāmacarita*.