नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

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(c) Śātakarṇi (Śātakarna, Śālikarṇa). Śātakarṇi as a proper name is found in inscriptions from the first century B. C. to 149 A. C. Hence it is possible (though not quite certain) that Śātakarṇi the writer on drama flourished about the first century A. C.⁴ Like kings in later times who were sometimes found to take interest among other subjects in drama and poetics and to write treatises on them, this Śātakarṇi might well have been a king or a person of royal descent. From the quotations made by later writers⁵ from him it appears he wrote on dramaturgy.

(d) Aśmakuṭṭa and Nakhakuṭṭa. These two writers from their names appear to have been contemporaries, probably belonged to the same locality. Sāgaranandin⁶ and Viśvanātha⁷ quote from Nakhakuṭṭa, and Sāgara only is known to have quoted from Aśmakuṭṭa⁸, From these quotations it appears that Aśmakuṭṭa and Nakhakuṭṭa wrote on dramaturgy.

(e) Bādarāyaṇa (Bādari). Sāgara quotes from Bādarāyaṇa twice⁹ and possibly names him once as Bādari, and from the extracts quoted it seems that this early writer discussed dramaturgy.

3. Samgrahakara

Abhinavagupta once mentioned the Saṃgraha and once the Saṃgrahakāra.¹⁰ In the Nāṭyaśāstra (VI. 3, 10) itself also one Saṃgraha has been mentioned. It seems that the reference is to the identical work. From these facts it appears that the work might have been a compendium treating of dramaturgy as well as histrionics.

4. The Present Text of the Natyasastra (circa 200 A.C.).¹¹

5. Medieval Writers on Drama

(a) Nandi (Nandikeśvara) Tumburu Viśākhila and Cārāyaṇa. Besides the writers mentioned above Abhinava and Śāradātanaya refer to Nandi or Nandikeśvara¹² and the former also names Tumburu¹³ and Viśākhila¹⁴ with occasional reference to their views or actually quotations from them, and Cārāyaṇa has once been quoted by Sāgaranandin.¹⁵

(b) Sadāśiva, Padmabhū, Drauhiṇi, Vyāsa and Āñjaneya.

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⁴ Select Inscriptions, pp. 191-207.
⁵ NL. 1101-1102, Rucipati's Comm. on AR. p. 7.
⁶ NL. 2768-2769, 2904-2905.
⁷ SD. 294, Nakhakuṭṭa has also been mentioned by Bahurūpa in his Comm. on Daśarūpa (Indian and Iranian Studies presented to D. Ross, Bombay. p. 201), p. 201 f.n.
⁸ 83, 437. 2766-2767, 2774-2775.
⁹ NL. 1092-1094, 2770-2771.
¹⁰ Ag. II. pp. 436, 2770-2771.
¹¹ See below sections VI. and VIII.
¹² Ag. I. p. 171, De's Ms. p. 559. This Nandikesvara may be identical with the author of the AD.
¹³ Ag. I. pp. 165.
¹⁴ Ag. I. p. 199 also De's Ms. pp. 547, 564, 573, See also Kutta, sl. 123.
¹⁵ NL. 362-363.

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