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].