A
Abhayadatta, in the Mudrārākṣasa, [206].
Abhayadeva, king (A.D. 1229–32), [254].
Abhayakumāra, minister of Çreṇika, [260].
Abhayapāla, king, [254].
Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna, [96], [97], [117], [213].
Abhinavagupta, writer on poetics, [103], [220], [291], [294], [318], [319], [320], [338], [342], [343], [344].
Abhirāma, commentator on the Çakuntalā, [154].
Ābhīras, a people, [129], [335], [337], n. [1].
Abrupt dialogue (udghātya), [328], [341].
Abrupt remark (gaṇḍa), [329].
Abuse, in ritual, as one source of drama, [24], [25].
Achievements of the Sanskrit drama, [276]–88.
Active, for middle, and vice versa, in Bhāsa, [120].
Actors and Actresses, [360]–4;
number of, [66], [110], [345], [346], [347];
opening dialogue of, [340];
feelings aroused in, [316], [320], [321], [324], [355];
see also Granthikas, Çaubhikas, Çailūṣa.
Acts, [60], [61], [301], [305], [345]–51.
Address, conventional modes of, [314];
as evidence of date of dramatic origin, [69]–71.
Ādisūra, of Bengal, [212].
Ādityasena, of Magadha (A.D. 671), [212].
Adultery, as an allegorical character, [255].
Advaita form of Viṣṇu doctrine, [251], [252].
Aerial car, journeys in an, [190], [229], [233], [246], [255].
Agastya, a seer, dialogues of, in the Ṛgveda, [14].
Aghoraghaṇṭa, a priest, [188], [313], [328].
Agni, god of fire, dialogue of, with the gods, [21];
saves Avimāraka, [101];
saves Sītā, [105].
Agnimitra, a prince, hero of the Mālavikāgnimitra, [147]–9, [165], [364].
Agnivarṇa, a prince, [364].
Agon, dramatic contest, essential to drama, [45].
Aihole inscription (A.D. 634), mentions Kālidāsa, [146].
Aischylos, [75], n. [2], [196], [197].
Ajayapāla, king (A.D. 1173–6), [258].
Ajitāpīḍa (A.D. 813–50), king of Kashmir, [291].
Ājīvika, in drama, [85].
Akālajalada, grandfather of Rājaçekhara, [231].
Akṣa, son of Rāvaṇa, [246].
Alexander of Macedonia, his love of drama, [59].
Alexandria, as source of Greek influence on India, [60].
Alkestis, dramatic silence of, compared with that of Sītā, [110].
Allegorical drama, Buddhist, [83], [84];
later, [251]–6.
Allegorical personages, in Bhāsa, [112].
Alliteration, [238], [331];
a characteristic of the Gauḍa style, [332].
Ammāl Ācārya, author of the Vasantatilaka, [263].
Aṇahilapāṭaka, [269], and see Aṇhilvāḍ.
Ānandarāya, author of the Jīvānandana, [253].
Ānandavardhana, writer on poetics, [212], [220], [294].
Anan̄gaharṣa Mātrarāja, author of Tāpasavatsarājacarita, [220].
Anan̄gamañjarī, a hetaera, [263].
Anan̄gaçekhara, a Viṭa, [264].
Anan̄gasenā, a hetaera, [361].
Anasūyā, friend of Çakuntalā, [153], [158].
Anayasindhu, an evil king, [261], [262].
Andhrabhṛtyas, dynasty, [129].
Andhraja, speech, [337], n. [1].
Andhras, a people, [335], [336];
colour of, [366].
An̄gada, envoy to Rāvaṇa, [119], [190], [247], [269].
An̄gas, a people, colour of, [366].
Anger (krodha), as basis of sentiment, [323].
Aṇhilvāḍ, literary activity at court of, [243];
and see Aṇahilapāṭaka.
Anticipatory scene (an̄kamukha), [302].
Antigone, of Sophokles, possibly known in India, [59], n. [2].
Antigone, a character impossible in Sanskrit drama, [278].
Apabhraṅça, [89], [122], [151], [175], [187], [336], n. [1], [350].
Apsarases, divine nymphs, [17], [40], [48], [96], [100], [112], [114], [265], [303], [339], n. [3], [352], [367].
Āraṇyakā or Āraṇyikā, heroine of the Priyadarçikā, [173], [174], [176], [362].
Arhants, views of, on the path of salvation, [183].
Ariṣṭa, a demon killed by Kṛṣṇa, [99], [106].
Arisiṅha, author of the Sukṛtasaṁkīrtana, [248], n. [a]7].
Aristotle, [39], [64], [279], n. [1], [287], [337], n. [2], [354], n. [1], [355].
Arjuna, a demon, [99].
Arjuna, a Pāṇḍava, [48], [96], [97], [213], [214], [215], [218], [265], [266], [268], [320], [329].
Arjunavarman, Paramāra of Dhārā (A.D. 1211), [256].
Arrian, notes Indian love for song and dance, [44], n. [2].
Ars Amoris, of Ovid, [285].
Arsenic, used for pigments, [369].
Art of Bhāsa, [105]–10;
Mṛcchakaṭikā, [134];
Kālidāsa, [155]–60;
Harṣa, [175]–7;
Mahendravikramavarman, [182], [183];
Bhavabhūti, [192]–6;
Viçākhadatta, [208], [209];
Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa, [214], [215];
Yaçovarman, [222], [223];
Murāri, [229], [230];
Rājaçekhara, [235], [236];
Jayadeva, [246];
Kṛṣṇamiçra, [253].
Arundhatī, in the Uttararāmacarita, [192].
Āryabhaṭa, astronomer (A.D. 499), [146].
Āryaka, in the Mṛcchakaṭikā, [64], [129], [130], [132], [133], [135].
Aryan, conquers Çūdra, in the Mahāvrata ritual, [24].
Açokadatta, and the Rākṣasas, [193], n. [2].
Açokan dialect, compared with that of Açvaghoṣa, [86], [87].
Açvaghoṣa, dramatist, [43], [58], [70], [72], [74], [77], [80]–90, [93], [94], [95], [158], [161], [251], [292], [311], [336].
Açvajit and Çāriputra, [81].
Asajjāti, a comic Brahmin, [261].
Ascetics, how addressed, [314];
appropriate to a Prahasana, [348].
Asides, [304].
Aspirates, reduced in Bhāsa, but not in Açvaghoṣa, to h, [121].
Astonishment (vismaya), as the basis of the sentiment of wonder, [323].
Astrologers, where placed in the auditorium, [370].
Asura Maya, magic craftsman, [52].
Atharvan, dialogue of, [15].
Ātreya, the Vidūṣaka of Jīmūtavāhana, [177].
Ātreyī, an ascetic, [191].
Audience, [369]–71, and see Spectators.
Aulularia, form of name, [64].
Auçīnarī, wife of Purūravas, [156].
Authenticity of Bhāsa’s dramas (very ineffectively attacked in BSOS. III. i. 107 ff.), [91]–3.
Avadhūta, see Kṛṣṇa.
Avalokitā, pupil of Kāmandakī, [193], [303], [362].
Avanibhājana, epithet of Mahendravikramavarman, [182].
Avantī, use of Bhūtabhāṣā in, [287].
Avantisundarī, wife of Rājaçekhara, [232], [288].
Avantivarman (A.D. 855–83) of Kashmir, patron of poets, [204], [220].
Āyogavas, actors ranked as, [363].