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Bābhravya, chamberlain of Vatsa, [171], [173].
Bāhlika, or Bālhika, a people, colour of, [366].
Bakchai, of Euripides, [59].
Baktria, Greek rule in, [57].
Baladeva, [48].
Bāla-Vālmīki, sobriquet of Murāri, [225].
Bali, binding of, performed in a dramatic manner, [32], [36], n. [1].
Bāṇa, the Asura, [242], [243].
Bāṇa, writer (A.D. 625), [29], [76], [91], [171], [182], n. [3], [366].
Bāṇa, see Vāmana Bhaṭṭa Bāṇa.
Bandhurā, a go-between, [262].
Barbaras, speech of, [336];
excluded from theatres, [370].
Barygaza, Bharukacchā, as port through which Greek influence came, [60].
Battles, in the drama, [347], [351].
Baudhāyana, censures actors, [363].
Bearer of fans, where placed in the auditorium, [370].
Benediction, see Nāndī and Bharatavākya.
Bengal, Sanskrit used in, [287].
Bengālī recension, of the Vikramorvaçī, [151];
the Çakuntalā, [154], [155];
the Veṇīsaṁhāra, [219].
Bernhardt, Sarah, [322], n. [2].
Bhādānakas, use of Apabhraṅça by, [287].
Bhadravatī, elephant, [108].
Bhāgurāyaṇa, in the Mudrārākṣasa, [205], [235].
Bhairavānanda, a magician, [234].
Bhāmaha, writer on poetics, [102].
Bhānudatta, views on sentiment, [319].
Bhānumatī, queen of Duryodhana, [213], [215], [219], [300].
Bharata, alleged author of the Nāṭyaçāstra, [12], [41], [150], [191], [343], [344], [349], [362], [364].
Bharata, brother of Rāma, [189], [224]. [[375]]
Bharata, son of Duḥṣanta, [154], [157].
Bhārata tribe, [30].
Bharhut sculptures, dance represented on, [350], n. [2].
Bhartṛhari, poet, [366];
celebrated in the Bhartṛharinirveda, [248].
Bhartṛmeṇṭha, [232].
Bhāsa, dramatist, [42], [51], [66], [70], [73], [74], [87], [91]–126, [147], [161], [185], [187], n. [2], [243], [270], [286], [292], [300], [301], n. [4], [305], [311], [335], [336], [341], [342], [346], [347], [353], [354], [371], n. [2].
Bhāskaradatta, a Mahārāja, [204].
Bhāskara Kavi, author of the Unmattarāghava, [268].
Bhāṭ, reciters, [30].
Bhaṭṭa Gopāla, grandfather of Bhavabhūti, [186].
Bhaṭṭa Lollaṭa, doctrine of sentiment, [316].
Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa, author of the Veṇīsaṁhāra, [83], [212]–19.
Bhattanatha Svamin, on date of Murāri, [225].
Bhaṭṭa Nāyaka, writer on poetics, [291], [317], [318], [320], [321].
Bhavabhūti, dramatist, [42], [139], [161], [186]–203, [209], [217], [225], [226], [227], [232], [239], [247], [257], [271], [281], [284], [297], [301], [311], [343], n. [1], [352], [353], [364].
Bhīma, a Pāṇḍava, [95], [96], [97], [109], [213], [214], [215], [216], [218], [266], [304], [329], [340].
Bhīmadeva II, the Cālukya, [256].
Bhīmaṭa, author of Svapnadaçānana, [239].
Bhīmeçvara, procession of the god, [248].
Bhīṣma, preceptor of the Kauravas, [97].
Bhoja (11th cent.), writer on poetics (JRAS. 1923, p. 545 ff.), [143], [325], n. [1], [331].
Bhujan̄gaçekhara, a Viṭa, [263], [264].
Bhūrivasu, a minister, [187].
Bhūtas, honoured in the preliminaries of the drama, [340].
Bhuvanapāla, minister of Saṁgrāmasiṅha, [249].
Bidyāpati Ṭhākur, Maithilī dramatist, [243].
Bilhaṇa, author of the Karṇasundarī, [256].
Bimbisāra, king of Magadha, [43].
Bloch, Th., on the Greek origin of the Indian theatre, [67].
Bourgeois Comedy, see Prakaraṇa and Prakaraṇikā.
Boy, suggested marriage to, as a motif, [234], [235], [256].
Bṛhannalā, a eunuch, [335].
Brahmā, as creator of the Nāṭyaçāstra, [12], [13], [41].
Brahmadeva, of Raypur, [270].
Brahmin and hetaera, dialogue of, [39], [73].
Brahminical supremacy, in Bhāsa, [110];
in Kālidāsa, [160];
in Bhavabhūti, [197];
theory of life, [281].
Brahmin, [81], [276], [277], [281], [282], [283], [306];
as the Vidūṣaka, [310], [311];
address of, [314];
as hero of the Prakaraṇa, [346];
the Çilpaka, [351];
seats for, [359];
colour of, [366];
where placed in the auditorium, [370].
Brajbhāshā, [41].
Breach of alliance (saṁghātya), [327].
Buddha, the, [81], [82], [87], [179];
statues of the, [58];
as a dramatic character, [306].
Buddharakṣitā, in the Mālatīmādhava, [198].
Buddhism, disapproved, [252], [253].
Buddhist monk, [135];
nun, [193], [335].
Buddhists, and the drama, [42], [44], [174], [175], [284];
addressed as Bhadanta, [314].