Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume 3 / Issue 02 / February 1924, pp 295-299
- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1924
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00148086 (About DOI), Published online: 24 December 2009
Papers Contributed
Notes on the Sanskrit Drama
Professor A. Berriedale Keith
The fate of Bhāsa has been an unhappy one; long but little more than a name, his dramas have now been rescued from oblivion only to become the object of an energetic attack, which assures us that they are compilations and adaptations made for the stage of Kerala not earlier than the eighth century A.D., derived to some unknown extent from the works of Bhāsa. which, however, are now lost.
