الإنجليزية 1443

To bring the subject matter within moderate compass, I have confined it to the drama in Sanskrit or Prakrit, omitting any reference to vernacular dramas. I have also omitted from the account of the theory of drama all minor detail which appeared to have no more than the interest of ingenuity in subdivision and classification; I have had the less hesitation in doing so, because I have no doubt that value and depth of the Indian theory of poetics have failed to receive recognition, simply because in the original sources what is the important and what is valueless are presented in almost inextricable confusion. In tracing the development of the drama, I have laid stress only on the great writers and on dramatics who wrote before the end of the first millennium ; of later work