Nāṭyaśāstra — Sanskrit Text

by Bharata Muni

The Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata Muni — the foundational treatise of the Gāndharva Veda and of all Indian dramaturgy, dance and music, called the fifth Veda. Its adhyāyas set out the origin of nāṭya, the playhouse, the rasa-s and bhāva-s, gesture and movement, metre and prosody, the varieties of drama, the musical scales and instruments, and the duties of actor and audience. Devanāgarī with IAST transliteration, 4,437 verses across 70 sections. Sanskrit text from Sanskrit Wikisource (sa.wikisource.org), available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence; IAST generated from the Devanāgarī. No English translation is included.