How many types of play elucidated in the Natyashatra
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The Natyasastra is a Sanskrit text about the performing arts. The first full collection was between 200 and 200 BCE. The text is credited to Sage Bharata Muni. The text consists of 36 chapters in a total of six thousand poetic verses depicting performing arts. The topics discussed in the treatise include dramatic composition, the design of a stage and its structure, acting styles, body movements, the composition and costumes and the function and objectives of an art director, musical scales, musical techniques and the incorporation of music and performance into art.
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Explanation:There are ten kinds of play. They were For defining them the plays are to be known as Nataka, Prakaraṇa, Anka, Vyayoga, Bhaṇa, Samavakara, Vithi, Prahasana, Ḍima, and Ihamgra
1.Nataka:The Play that has an significant background for its subject and its Hero, a person of high character which explains the plot, the character of the hero, his divine protection and his various super- human forces, the achievements, and the love pastimes, and that has an sufficient number of acts and introductory Scenes is called a Nāṭaka
2.Prakarana: The play wherein the writer devises by his own intellect an original/novel plot with its Hero, and works up its elaboration
3.Anka: The plot in it is well known but often it is special and must be furnished with other male characters other than those who are divine
4.Samavakara: It should have the Asuras and gods as its subject matter and one of them as its exalted and prominent Hero, and it is comprises 3 Acts - the 3 kinds of excitement, 3 kinds of love, and 3 kinds of deception.
5.Vyayoga: It should be based by experts on one well-known Hero, with a limited number of female characters and only one day in length.
6.Bhana: A single character may be acted upon and it has two types: the recounting of one's own emotions and the explanation of another's acts.
7.Vithi: It must have a single act and two or one person can act. And comprise the characters of the superior, the middling or lower category and the feelings can be included, usually of 13 types
8.Prahasana: It must be known to be of two kinds: pure (comprises comic disputations by Saiva gurus Bhikhsus, ascetics, Srotriya Brahmins, and others and abounds in jocular remarks by persons of low caste/class) and mixed (in which servants, courtezans, Viṭas, eunuchs, Dhūrtas and unchaste women appear with their immodest dress, appearance and movements).
9.Dhima: It must be steupt with a renowned plot and its Hero must be renowned and exalted. This shall contain the six emotions and just four acts
10.Ihamrga: It has divine men as its dramatists, engaged in conflicts with divine women. It should be established with an orderly plot and must be convincing