नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

LXVI

Abhinava and Śāradātanaya once refer to Sadāśiva¹⁶ while some writers on drama, such as Padmabhū,¹⁷ Drauhiṇi,¹⁸ Vyāsa¹⁹ and Āñjaneya²⁰ have been named by Śāradātanaya only. But we are not sure whether they were really old authors or these names have been attached to some late treatises to give them an air of antiquty.

(c) Kātyāyana, Rāhula and Garga. These three writers, quoted by Abhinava and Sāgara may be counted among the medieval writers on drama. From the available extracts from his work Kātyāyana²¹ seems to have been a writer on dramaturgy. Rāhula has been twice quoted in Abhinava's commentary, and Sāgara²² has once referred to his view.²³ From these it appears that Rāhula was a writer on dramaturgy as well as histrionics. Garga as an authority on drama has been mentioned by Sāgaranandin.²⁴ In the absence of any quotation from him we cannot say what exactly he wrote about.

(d) Śakaligarbha and Ghaṇṭaka. Abhinava mentions among others the names of Śakaligarbha²⁵ and Ghaṇṭaka.²⁶ Of these two, Ghaṇṭaka seems to be a contemporary of Śaṅkuka, and as for, Śakaligarbha, we have no definite idea about his time. From the references to their views it appears that they wrote on dramaturgy.

(e) Vārtika-kāra Harṣa. Abhinava once quotes from the Vārtikakṛt²⁷ and once from the Vārtika²⁸ and next time from the Harṣavārtika,²⁹ and besides this he once refers to the views of the Vārtikakāri.³⁰ Sāgaranandin and Śāradātanaya refer to one Harṣavikrama³¹ or Harṣa.³² It seems possible that they all referred to the same author, and the name of the author of the Vārtika was Harṣa or Harṣa-vikrama. From these quotations and the references it appears that this Vārtika was an original treatise on dramaturgy and histrionics.

(f) Mātṛgupta. Mātṛgupta has been taken to be a commentator of the Nāṭyaśāstra by Sylvain Lévi.³³ Though this view has been accepted by authors who have written later on the subject,³⁴ from the metrical extracts³⁵ made from his work by some commentators it appears

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¹⁶ BhP. 152, DR. IV. 38-31.
¹⁷ BhP. p. 47.
¹⁸ BhP. p. 239.
¹⁹ BhP. 251.
²⁰ See note 19.
²¹ NL. 1484-1485. Ag. II. pp. 245-246.
²² Ag. I. pp. 115, 172. NL. 2873-2175.
²³ NL. 3225.
²⁴ NL. 3226.
²⁵ Ag. II. p. 452. Kavi thinks that Sakaligarbha = Sakaleya = Udbhaṭa.
²⁶ Ag. II. p. 436.
²⁷ Ag. I. p. 172. This Vārtika seems to have been in original work like Kumarila's Slokavartika written in verse.
²⁸ Ag. I. p 174.
²⁹ Ag I. p. 207 also De's Ms. p. 545.
³⁰ Ag. I. p. 31.
³¹ NL. 3225.
³² BhP. 233.
³³ Le Theatre indien p. 15.
³⁴ e. g. Skt. Poetics, Vol. (p. 32-33).
³⁵ A. dy pp. 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 110, 126, 230, NL. 102, 314-316, 459-471, 534, 1186 (?). BhP. p. 234.