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Cāhamāna, Vīsaladeva Vigraharāja, [248].

Caitanya, the saint, [247], [294].

Cakkyars, or Cākyārs, performance of plays by, [371], n. [1].

Cakora, Candraketu, prince of, [129].

Cakrasvāmin, festival of, [266].

Calm, as a character, [254];
hero, [305], [306].

Calm (çānta), sentiment, [324], [332], [351].

Cambay, [248], [249].

Cāmuṇḍā, the goddess, [188], [234].

Cāṇakya, in the Mudrārākṣasa, [62], [205] ff., [341], [344].

Caṇḍabhārgava, curse of, [125].

Caṇḍālas, [99], [133], [336], n. [1], [337].

Caṇḍālī, [99].

Candanadāsa, in the Mudrārākṣasa, [205] ff.

Candanaka, Prākrit used by, [141].

Caṇḍapāla, a king, [234].

Candra, Candraka, or Candaka, dramatist, [168]–70.

Candradāsa, an author, [168].

Candragupta, in the Mudrārākṣasa, [205] ff., [341].

Candragupta II, probable patron of Kālidāsa, [146].

Candraketu, prince of Cakora, [129].

Candraketu, rival of Lava, [191], [200].

Candraçekhara, commentator on the Çakuntalā, [154].

Candravarman, of Lāṭa, [234], [235].

Candrāvatī, [247], [265].

Cāṇūra, slain by Kṛṣṇa, [48], [100], [110].

Captivi, of Plautus, [64].

Cārāyaṇa, a Vidūṣaka, [235], [300].

Cārudatta, hero of the Cārudatta, [104], [116], [131], [132], [133], [134], [135], [136], [137]–40, [306].

Cārvāka, atheist, philosopher, [214], [252].

Caryatides, possibly imitated in the Indian theatre, [355].

Caṣṭana, a Kṣatrapa, [69]. [[376]]

Caste system, denounced by Açvaghoṣa, [80].

Causative, and simple verbal forms, confused in Bhāsa, [120], [121].

Cave, mountain, similarity of theatre to, [358].

Cedi era, [129].

Cerebral sibilants, produce strength of style, [332].

Cerebralization of n, in Açvaghoṣa’s Prākrits, [86], [87], [88], [121].

Cerebrals, other than , produce strength of style, [332].

Ceylon, king of, father of Ratnāvalī, [171].

Challenge (utthāpaka), [327].

Chamberlain (kañcukin), [313];
appropriate to the Prahasana, [348].

Change of action (parivartaka), [327].

Character drawing, [282];
in Bhāsa, [110];
Mṛcchakaṭikā, [134], [135], [137];
Kālidāsa, [155]–9;
Harṣa, [176], [177];
Bhavabhūti, [193], [194];
Viçākhadatta, [208], [209];
Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa, [215];
Rājaçekhara, [235].

Characters in the drama, [305]–14, [355].

Characteristics of the Sanskrit drama, [276]–88.

Charcoal burners, speech of, [337].

Cheating (chala), [329];
in the Samavakāra, [346].

Chess, [256].

Child, mode of address of, [314], n. [2].

Chinese stage, [360], note [2].

Cistellaria, form of name, [64].

Citramāya (Citramāyu), friend of Rāma, [223].

Citraratha, associated with Indra, [190], [194].

Clay elephants, children play with, [320].

Clearness, of style, [331], [332].

Coarseness of the Prahasanas and Bhāṇas, [264].

Cock-fights, [263], [285].

Colour of curtain, [359];
dress of actors, [366];
participators in dramatic performances, [35], [36], [37], [366];
sentiments, [324];
Indra’s banner, [369];
pillars of the auditorium, [359].

Combats, in the Ḍima, [347];
the Pren̄khaṇa, [351].

Comedy, Greek, origin of, [39], n. [2];
influence of, on Sanskrit drama, [58]–66.

Comedy, Sanskrit drama deficient in higher forms of, [280], [354], and see Nāṭaka, Nāṭikā, and Prakaraṇa.

Comic dialogue (prapañca), [328].

Comic (hāsya) sentiment, [323], [324], [347], [348]. [351].

Compassion, as a character, [254].

Compensatory lengthening of a vowel, with reduction of consonant groups, in Bhāsa, [121].

Competitions for poets, [286].

Compound letters, produce strength of style, [332].

Compounds, [217], [274], [332], [333];
irregular forms in Bhāsa, [121].

Conclusion (nirvahaṇa) as fifth juncture of the drama, [299].

Concubinage, as an allegorical character, [255].

Confiscation of property of persons dying without heirs, [253].

Conflict in character, un-known to Indian drama, [278], [279].

Confusion, as an allegorical character, [251], [252], [254], [255].

Conjunct consonants, produce strength of style, [332].

Conscience, struggle of, unknown in Sanskrit drama, [279].

Consequents (anubhāva), in dramatic theory, [315] ff.

Construction, immediate, of an object by artificial means (saṁkṣipti), [327].

Contemplation, as an allegorical character, [252].

Contentment, as an allegorical character, [252].

Contest, as essential element of the drama, [45], [278].

Continuance (avalagita), [328].

Continuation scene (an̄kāvatāra), [302].

Contractions, irregular, in Bhāsa’s Sanskrit, [120].

Cora Indians, dramatic ritual of, [18], [19].

Corpse, revival of, as dramatic motif, [259].

Cosmopolitan character, ascribed to the Mṛcchakaṭikā, [139], [140].

Courteous, hero, [307].

Courtesans, see Hetaerae.

Courtiers, where placed in the auditorium, [370].

Courts, as patrons of the drama, [285], [362].

Crassus, Iason and the head of, [59].

Creation of object by magic (vastūtthāpana), [327].

Creeper, Urvaçī transformed into a, [150], [151], [156].

Critique of life, lacking in Sanskrit drama, [160], [195], [196], [197], [280], [281], [354].

Cult, as an allegorical character, [252].

Curse, as a dramatic motif, [125], [153], [157], [158].

Curtain of theatre, [61], [67], [68], [113], n. [1];
colour of, [359] (cf. Elizabethan curtain, with colours varying as in India according to subject, GIL. iii. 177, n. 1). [[377]]

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