नाट्यशास्त्र
Nāṭyaśāstra
Bharata Muni (traditional) भरत मुनि · traditional
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A vast compilation on theatre, covering stage building, dance, gesture, music, metre, costume and the training of actors, said to have been given by the gods as a fifth Veda. Its short account of rasa, the flavours an audience tastes through feeling, grew under later commentators into the central idea of Indian aesthetics.