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NATYASHASTRAB.A III

Deptt

. Of Dance

Ms.

Charu

HandaSlide2

INTRODUCTIONThe

Natya

Shastra

is

an ancient

Indian

treatise on the

performing arts

, encompassing

theatre

,

dance

and

music

. It was written during the period between 200 BCE and 200 CE in classical

India

and is traditionally attributed to the

Sage

Bharata

.

The

Natya

Shastra

is incredibly wide in its

scope and influences

music

,

classical Indian dance

, and

literature

as well. It covers

stage design

, music, dance,

makeup

, and virtually every other aspect of

stagecraft

.The

most authoritative commentary on the

Natya

Shastra

is

Abhinavabharati

by

Abhinavagupta

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Natyashastra SaysSlide4

Bharata,The Author Of Natyashastra

Bharata

Muni, is acknowledged to be a legendary author of the

Natyashastra

, the first Sanskrit work on dramaturgy.

The treatise says that

Bharata was the one who popularized the Natyaveda, created by Brahm, on the earth. He is also said to have collected all the material of earlier acharyas (ancient teachers) like Tumburu

,

Narada

and Nandi and gave the

Nayashastra

a complete coherence by making additions, alterations and adaptations according to the requirements of time and space.Slide5

List Of Chapters

Origin of drama

Description of the playhouse

Puja (offering) to the Gods of the

stage

Preliminaries of a play

Sentiments (rasas)Emotional and other statesGestures of Head and parts of faceGestures of handsGestures of torso and limbsChari movementsDiction of a playSlide6

Ten kinds

of plays

Costumes and make-up

Harmonious

performance

Varied performances

Success in dramatic performancesInstrumental musicStringed instrumentsTime measureDhruva songsCovered instrumentsTypes of character

Distribution of roles

Descent of drama on the EarthSlide7

Summary Of Natyashastra

The available text, which is based on the manuscript of the

Abhinavabharati

,

a commentary

of

Abhinavagupta (11th century C.E.), is divided into thirty-six chapters having the following major contents:Origins of Natyaveda (science of dramatic performance), and the concept of anukarana (imitation)of life for dramatic presentation.Three kinds of theatre buildings and their ritual consecration by the sponsor, a

rich person

or a king.

Purvaranga

(preliminary performance) in nineteen parts to please the gods and

the audience

, definition of eight

Rasas

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Four kinds of abhinayas

(acting/expression)—

angika

abhinaya

, vacika abhinaya,aharya abhinaya ,sattvika abhinaya .Two kinds of dharmis

—

lokadharmi

and

natyadharmi

.

F

our

kinds of

vrittis

(modes of productions)—

bharati,kaishiki,sattvati

and

arabhati

P

ravrittis

—

avanti

,

dakshinatya

,

panchali

and

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Dasarupakas (the ten types of plays extending from one act play to ten act plays.)

Itivritta

(structure of the dramatic plot), the stages of action, the nature of

episodes and

the interconnected emotional states of the hero .

Nayakas

(heroes) and nayikas (heroines).Svaras (musical notes) gramas (musical scales) and atodyavidhi (ways of playinmusical instruments like the strings, flutes, drums and cymbalsSlide10

Aim Of Natyashastra

The

Nayashastra

known as

Natyaveda

or the fifth Veda, is a classical manual on

the theory and practice of Indian aesthetics— theatre, music, dance, poetics, gestures and many other allied arts— given by Bharat Muni. The Nayashastra primarily aims at giving the necessary directions to actors so as to enable them creditably to acquit themselves in acting out their parts; and to the dramatists to enable them to write flawless dramas.

It

also aims at helping

the aesthete

, who is eager to enjoy the beautiful and afraid of the study of the Vedas and

Puranas,which

show the ways of realization of the main objectives of human life

.