Bhāsa
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Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa. Estimates of his floruit range from the 4th century BCE to the 4th century CE; the thirteen plays attributed to him are commonly dated closer to the first or second century CE.
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- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kushan Empire
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Sanskrit
- Notable work
- Svapnavasavadattam
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- writing language
- Sanskrit
- date of birth
- 0200-01-01
- date of death
- 0300-01-01
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- Bhāsa
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- Bhāsa
- end of work period
- 0300-00-00
- start of work period
- 0200-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Date
- Plays of Bhāsa
- Plays based on ''Ramayana''
- Plays based on ''Mahābhārata''
- Based on story of Bṛhatkathā
- Other plays
- Modern revival
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa. Estimates of his floruit range from the 4th century BCE to the 4th century CE; the thirteen plays attributed to him are commonly dated closer to the first or second century CE.
Bhasa's plays had been lost for centuries until the manuscripts were rediscovered in 1910 by the Indian scholar Ganapati Shastri. Bhāsa had previously only been known from mentions in other works, such as the Rajashekhara's Kāvya-mimāmsā, which attributes the play Swapnavāsavadattam to him.
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