Paper Title: (Vīṇāvāsavadattanāṭakasya viṣayacamatkāritve Kauṭilyārthaśāstrasya prbhāvāḥ.
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In the world of poetry the creation of a poet is superior to the creation of Brahma. Poets creats poetry with his own genius. This poetry is mainly of two types -visible (dṛśya) and audible (śrāvya). Among them, the main subject of visible poetry of acting or abhinaya. The four types of abhinaya- āngika, vāchika, āhārya, sāttvika. Generally, visible poetry is called rūpaka, drama (nāṭaka), or nāṭya. That is the nāṭaka or rūpaka where actors actresses perform acting by assuming the rolls of heros and heroines like Udayana and Vāsavadattā.Because different types of acting are seen in different rūpakas. This rūpaka is of ten types. The ancient writer Bharata Muni has accepted ten types of rūpaka in his Nāṭyaśāstra. Biswanātha has also accepted ten types in his Sāhityadarpaṇa. Besides these, eighteen types of uparūpakas are also mentioned.
Among such ten types of rūpakas and eighteen uparūpakas of Sanskrit dramatic literature, the first type, nāṭaka, is the most unique. Similarly, among the nāṭakas composed in Sanskrit literature, there is a visible poetry called Vīṇāvāsavadatta, composed by an unknown author, which is also one of the least known and unfamiliar visible poetries.The drama Vīṇāvāsavadatta is full of various emotions and has a profound meaning. At the beginning of the, nāṭaka there is a brief introduction, but nothing is said about its author . However, Vīṇāvāsavadatta has various unique features that remind one of Bhāsa's nāṭakas .The manuscript of this nāṭaka was found in the city of Trivandrum, written in Malayalam script on palm leaves. Dr. C. Kunhan Raja published four acts of this play in the Journal of Oriental Research, Madras, in 1927. To draw attention to the facts of this nāṭaka, editor K.V. Sharma published his views. After publication, this play attracted the attention of scholars, especially in solving the Bhāsa problem.Later, Professor Kuppuswami Sastri published this nāṭaka in book form. Although in the book "History of Sanskrit Literature" edited by Dhirendranath Bandyopadhyay, the author of this is nāṭaka mentioned as Shudraka, this fact is not accepted by all researchers.Although the nāṭakas named Vīṇāvāsavadattam, which is discussed in this article.
Keywords:Shudraka, Vinavasavadattam, Arthashastram, arthanubandha, Svabarahyoh kalahe, Ubhayabetana
DOI Link – https://doi.org/10.63431/AIJITR/3.I.2026.37-44
Review By – Dr. Rajib Sinha and Dr. Chandan Mandal