Author: Nandikes ́vara Nandikes ́vara

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-07

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781333495725

Excerpt from The Mirror of Gesture: Being the Abhinaya Darpana of Nandikes vara The dramatic scriptures of India were framed by Brahma at the request of the lesser gods, at the very beginning of the Treta Yuga, the last aeon before the present. This event is described as follows in the first chapter of the N atya Sastra of Bharata. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."