natyadharmi

Indian drama

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In South Asian arts: Classical theatre
…the popular taste, and the natyadharmi, or stylized drama, which, using gesture language and symbols, was considered more artistic. In Shakuntala the king enters riding an imaginary chariot, and Shakuntala plucks flowers that are not there; in “The Little Clay Cart” the thief breaks through a nonexistent wall, and Maitreya…
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