A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s2.95

v3.c35.s2.95

The most famous work on dramaturgy, that overthrows the Bhāratīya-Nāṭyaśāstra and has replaced it, is the Daśarūpa² “The Treatise on the ten kinds of Drama” of Dha na ñ ja ya, the son of Viṣṇu, who lived during the reign of Vākpatirāja II of Muñja (974-979 A.D.)³. His younger brother Dha ni-ka⁴ wrote a commentary on this work. The Daśarūpa is more lucid and systematic than the Bhāratīya-Nāṭyaśāstra and, therefore, is quoted most frequently in later works on poetics. It is written in verses, mostly in ślokas, but the style is so concise that without the commentary it is hardly intelligible.