The History of Indian Literature c10.37

c10.37

P. 199, note †. For the text of these Suttas see now Grimblot, *Sept suttas Pális* (Paris, 1876), p. 89; ‘*nachcham gítam váditam pekkham akkháṇam . . iti vá iti evarúpá vísúkadassaná*’ (exhibitions, p. 65, spectacles, pp. 179, 215). From this it appears that the word here properly in question is not so much the general term *vísúka* as rather, specially, *pekkha* (*prekshya*), ‘exhibition,’ ‘spectacle,’ translated by ‘theatricals,’ pp. 65, 179, ‘représentations dramatiques,’ p. 215; comp. *prekshaṇaka* as the name of a species of drama in Bharata (Hall, Daśarúpa, p. 6), and *dṛiśya* in the Sáhitya-darpaṇa as the name of dramatic poetry in general.