D
Dadhittha, a monkey, [233].
Daityas, propitiated in the preliminaries of the drama, [339], n. [3].
Dakṣiṇāvartanātha, commentator on the Meghadūta, [145].
Dāmodara, [99], and see Kṛṣṇa.
Dāmodaragupta, author of the Kuṭṭanīmata, [171], [362], [368].
Dāmodaramiçra, redactor of the Mahānāṭaka, [270].
Dānavas, demons, [267], [339], n. [3], [366].
Dance, [12], [15], [16], [25], [26], [42], [44], [45], [50], [57], [58], [112], [160], [291], [296], [338], [350], [351].
Daṇḍin, author, [104], [129], [193], [221], [330], [363].
Dantivarman, dubious name of a king, [204].
Danturā, a go-between, [261].
Daçapura, use of Bhūtabhāṣā in, [287].
Daçaratha, a king, [100], [101], [189], [226], [228], [232], [245].
Daçārha festival, [42].
Date of Bhāsa’s dramas, [93]–5.
Dead, worship of, and drama, [46], [47].
Death on the stage, [105], [110], [140], [292], [354].
Deccan, colour of people of the, [366];
dramatic performances in the, [363].
Deceitful hero, [307].
Decline of the drama, causes of, [242]–4.
Demi-gods, as heroes of the Ḍima, [347].
Demons, as heroes of the Ḍima, [347], and see Daityas, Dānavas, Rākṣasas.
Dénouement (kārya), as an element of the plot, [298];
wonder appropriate in the, [325].
Desire, as a character, [251].
Determinants (vibhāva), in dramatic theory, [315] ff.
Deus ex machina, Gaurī as, [175], [176].
Devajī, father of Rāmakṛṣṇa, [274].
Devakī, mother of Kṛṣṇa, [40], [98].
Devanāgarī recension, of the Çakuntalā, [154], [155];
the Vikramorvaçī, [151];
the Veṇīsaṁhāra, [219].
Devapāla of Mālava, [249].
Devarāta, a minister, [187].
Devasomā, a damsel attached to a Çaiva mendicant, [182], [185].
Deva Sūri, Jain sage, [259], [260].
Development (garbha), third juncture of the drama, [299].
Development of affection (narmagarbha), [327].
Devil, in mediaeval mystery plays, [24], [39].
Devotion, as a sentiment, [325], n. [1].
Dhanadeva, father of Yaçaḥpāla, [254], [260].
Dhanaṁjaya, writer on poetics, [292], [321], [325], [328], [329], [340], [347].
Dhānaṁjaya, in a Buddhist drama, [84].
Dhaneçvara, father of Jyotirīçvara, [261].
Dhanika, writer on poetics, [220], [223], [271], [293], [350], [366].
Dhanika Paṇḍita, [293].
Dhārāvarṣa, prince of Candrāvatī, [247], [265].
Dhāriṇī, a queen, [148], [149], [155], [159], [163], [165].
Dhāvaka, misreading for Bhāsa, [171].
Dhīrasiṅha, father of Jyotirīçvara, [261].
Dhīreçvara, family, [261].
Dialogue (saṁlāpa), [327].
Dialogues of the Veda, alleged dramatic character of the, [13]–23.
Digambara Jainism, [252].
Diggers of underground passages, speech of (cf. JRAS. 1923, p. 591), [88], [336].
Dignāga, alleged enemy of Kālidāsa, [145].
Dionysos, Greek god, [66].
Dionysos, Indian, i.e. Çiva, [42], n. [1].
Dionysos Melanaigis, [38].
Discrimination, as a character, [251], [252], [254], [255].
Disguise, of girl as boy, as motif, [234], [235].
Disguise, assumed on the stage, [303].
Disgust (jugupsā), as the basis of the sentiment of horror, [323].
Dithyramb, and drama, [39].
Division into acts, [60], [61].
Division of sentiment, not allowed in the drama, [278], [279].
Doors of the stage, number of, [360].
Double consonant, with short vowel, in place of single consonant and long vowel, [121].
Double entendre, [304].
Dṛḍhavarman, uncle of Vāsavadattā, [173], [174], [360].
Dhṛṣṭadyumna, slays Droṇa, [213].
Dhṛtarāṣṭra, a king, [96], [106], [117], [214], [216], [218].
Double letters, produce strength of style, [332].
Dramatic elements in Vedic ritual, [23]–7.
Dramilas, speech of the, [337], n. [1], and see Draviḍas.
Draupadī, wife of the Pāṇḍavas, [63], [97], [212], [213], [214], [218], [233], [265], [266], [270].
Draviḍas, speech of, [336], [337];
colour of, [366].
Dream, as motif, [303];
truthful in early hours of morning, [234].
Dress of actors, [366].
Drinking, as an allegorical character, [255].
Droṇa, preceptor of the Kauravas, [97], [213].
Drop, or expansion (bindu), as an element of the plot, [298]. [[378]]
Duhika, variant of Durduka, [231].
Duḥçāsana, [212], [214], [216].
Duḥṣanta (Duṣyanta), a king, hero of the Çakuntalā, [152]–5, [297], [341], [365].
Dundubhi, [228].
Durācāra, a pupil, [261].
Duration of acts of certain dramas, [346], [351].
Durduka, father of Rājaçekhara, [231].
Durgāpūjā, festival in Bengal, [262].
Durmukha, in the Uttararāmacarita, [190], [329].
Durvāsas, an ascetic, [153], [158], [268], [298].
Duryodhana, chief of the Kauravas, [38], n. [2], [96], [97], [106], [110], [111], [114], [212], [214], [215], [216], [218], [266], [278], [300], [304], [309], [329], [354].
Duty, as superior to private interest, in Kālidāsa, [153], [154].