Talk:Indian classical drama

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Lower class etc. speaking prakrit[edit]

Should make it clear that not all characters actually speak in Sanskrit in "Sanskrit drama"... AnonMoos (talk) 00:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rename as Indian drama[edit]

There is nothing called "Sanskrit drama" since works of ancient Indian dramatists like Kalidasa, Bhasa, etc were actually multilingual plays where characters spoke languages like Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, etc based on their social status and gender. For example, male and elite characters like Rama, Krishna always spoke Sanskrit while female and lowercast characters always spoke Prakrit or Pali. During ancient times, Sanskrit was considered as a language that only noble and high cast people can speak. Women characters, even if they are high-caste born, did not speak Sanskrit since in ancient times, only male members of a family was educated Vedas. People believed in those days that a person who did not get proper Vedic education, could not speak Sanskrit. Hence, playwrights of ancient times always portrayed women, low caste people, tribes and Asuras as speaking Prakrit or such Bhramsha languages.

Therefore I suggest this article to be renamed as "Indian drama" rather than "Sanskrit drama". - Meldort (talk) 13:06, 16 December 2017 (UTC) Meldort (talk) 13:06, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Classical Sanskrit PLAYWRIGHTS 2409:4066:E89:A797:0:0:7808:B606 (talk) 08:58, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]