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].

Dumb actors, [53], [273].

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].

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