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Kavyeshu Natakam ramyam, tatra ramya Shakuntula ... Thus goes the eulogy of the best drama in Sanskrit. It means that among the various branches of literature, drama tops the list and among the dramas, Sakuntalam of Kalidasa excels. No doubt, Kalidasa is the greatest poet of India. But as a dramatist, in truth, he cannot surpass most of the Sanskrit dramatists. It is indeed Bhasa who excels as dramatist and his drama PRATIMANATAKAM captures the hearts of the connoisseurs. It is a pity that most of the cultured readers of India do not know the name of Bhasa, let alone the merit of PRATIMANATAKAM. It was Kalidasa who first praised Bhasa as the ‘established author of repute’, in his maiden venture MALAVIKAGNIMITRAM. Bhasa was considered the father of Sanskrit drama, nay, the Indian Drama. Poets like Bana, Jayadeva and Rajasekhara extolled him as the towering dramatist, the smile of the Goddess of Poetry. Bhasa is said to be a contemporary of stalwarts like sage Bharata of NATYASASTRA and Panini of ASTADHYAYI and Kautilya of ARTHASASTRA (3rd century B.C). Bhasa must have written many dramas, but unfortunately only 13 works could be discovered until now. Among these, traditionally, SWAPNAVASAVADATTAM is considered the best. But his drama PRATIMANATAKAM is so unique in theme and arresting in stagecraft that it can vie with SWAPNATAKAM, or ABHIJNANASAKUNTALAM for the first place. In the entire history of Literature, it is Bhasa alone who sees good in all people and has a soft corner for all the famous bad characters like Ravana, Kaikeyi, Duryodhana and Karna of the classics, the RAMAYANA and the MAHABHARATA. In his plays Bhasa portrays these so called villains as the good and noble people who were sinned against than sinning. Bhasa tries his best to portray these characters as lynch pins in the scheme of the play of God. On reading Bhasa’s plays, one ends up unconsciously sympathizing with so called bad characters. This is more so in PRATIMANATAKAM. Bhasa took the theme of Ramayana for his PRATIMA. The Ramayana is the perennial source, Upjeeva Kavya, for all latter poets. Many poets retold the story of Rama again and again so as to make the Ramayana story attain ten million verses CHARITAM RAGHUNATHASYA SATAKOTI PRAVISTARAM.
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