The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c14.96

c14.96

The state should facilitate, regulate and control public amusements and entertainments. It was to assist the foundation of academies where actors and actresses might learn reading and writing, music and song, dancing and painting and where they might master a complete code of deportment and blandishment. The movements of dancers, rope-dancers, buffoons, jugglers, mimic players and troubadours were to be regulated and a fifteenth of their incomes taken as the dues of the state.¹