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Eclecticism of classical age of Sanskrit literature, [284].
Egoism, as a character, [252].
Ekbatana, Greek artistes at, [59].
Elements of the plot (arthaprakṛti), [298], [299].
Elephant, artificial, to contain men, [327];
terrifies people in the street, [264].
Elephants, escape of, as dramatic motif, [193], [257].
Elision of consonants, not in Açvaghoṣa, [86];
in Bhāsa, [121];
with compensatory lengthening, [121].
Emotion (bhāva), [277], [278], [296], [316]–26.
Energy (utsāha), as basis of heroic sentiment, [323].
Enigma (nālikā), [329].
Epics, and the drama, [27], [28]–31, [42], [45], [47], [49], [58], [63], [75], [76], [281], [282], [297];
original form of, [21]–3.
Epidicus, of Plautus, [64].
Episode (patākā), [297], [298], [299].
Equivoke, as dramatic motif, [304].
Erotic (çṛn̄gāra), sentiment, [278], [323], [324], [346], [347], [349], [350], [351];
metre and style appropriate to, [331], [332].
Eunuchs, [313];
in the Prahasana, [348].
Euripides, [59], [196], [197], [279], n. [1], [282].
Excitement, sentiment of, [265].
Exegesis, as an allegorical character, [252].