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Bhāsa
Indian playwright in Sanskrit
"Bhasa" redirects here. For the word for "language", see Bhāṣā. For other uses, see Bhasa (disambiguation).
Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa.
Characteristics of sanskrit dramaEstimates of his floruit range from the 4th century BCE[1] to the 4th century CE;[2] the thirteen plays attributed to him are commonly dated closer to the first or second century CE.[3]
Bhasa's plays had been lost for centuries until the manuscripts were rediscovered in 1910 by the Indian scholar Ganapati Shastri.[4] Bhāsa had previously only been known from mentions in other works, such as the Rajashekhara's Kāvya-mimāmsā, which attributes the play Swapnavāsavadattam to him.
In the introduction to his first play Mālavikāgnimitram, Kālidāsa wrote: "Shall we neglect the works of such illustrious authors as Bhāsa, Saūmilla, and Kaviputra? Can the audience feel any respect for the work of a modern poet, a Kāli
