ABBREVIATIONS
| AID. | Über die Anfänge des indischen Dramas, Munich, 1914. |
| AJP. | American Journal of Philology. |
| AP. | Agni Purāṇa, ed. BI. |
| BI. | Bibliotheca Indica, Calcutta. |
| BS. | Bhāsa-Studien, Leipzig, 1918. |
| BSS. | Bombay Sanskrit Series. |
| CHI. | Cambridge History of India. |
| DR. | Daçarūpa, cited from Hall’s ed. BI. |
| EI. | Epigraphia Indica. |
| GGA. | Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen. |
| GIL. | Geschichte der indischen Litteratur, by M. Winternitz, Leipzig, 1904–22. |
| GN. | Nachrichten der königl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. |
| GOS. | Gaekwad’s Oriental Series. |
| GSAI. | Giornale della Società Asiatica Italiana. |
| HOS. | Harvard Oriental Series. |
| IA. | Indian Antiquary. |
| ID. | Das indische Drama, Berlin, 1920. |
| IS. | Indische Studien. |
| JA. | Journal Asiatique. |
| JAOS. | Journal of the American Oriental Society. |
| JBRAS. | Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. |
| JPASB. | Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |
| JRAS. | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. |
| KF. | Aufsätze zur Kultur- und Sprachgeschichte Ernst Kuhn gewidmet. Breslau, 1916. |
| KM. | Kāvyamālā series, Bombay. |
| N. | Nāṭyaçāstra. |
| R. | Rasārṇavasudhākara, ed. TSS. 1916. |
| SBAW. | Sitzungsberichte der königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. |
| SD. | Sāhityadarpaṇa, cited by the sections of the BI. ed. |
| SP. | Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics, I, London, 1923. |
| TI. | Le théâtre indien, Paris, 1890. |
| TSS. | Trivandrum Sanskrit Series. |
| VOJ. | Vienna Oriental Journal. |
| ZDMG. | Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. |
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PART I
THE ORIGIN OF THE SANSKRIT DRAMA
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