Natyalamkara, Natya-alamkara, Nāṭyālaṃkāra, Nāṭyālaṅkāra, Natya-alankara, Natylankara: 1 definition
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Sports, Arts and Entertainment (wordly enjoyments)
Nāṭyālaṃkāra (नाट्यालंकार) refers to “dramas and in rhetoric”, according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, “Hunting on horseback (āśvina) represents one of the eight subdivisions of Hunting (mṛgayā). [...] In the matter of the intensity of pleasure no distinction is found between hunting and the enjoyment of women. [...] Of these, in respect to women much has been said in dramas and in rhetoric (nāṭyālaṃkāra), and also in works on Erotics. Therefore it will not be treated of here. But something should be said in brief about hunting, for the diffusion of its knowledge. [...]”.
This section covers the skills and profiencies of the Kalas (“performing arts”) and Shastras (“sciences”) involving ancient Indian traditions of sports, games, arts, entertainment, love-making and other means of wordly enjoyments. Traditionally these topics were dealt with in Sanskrit treatises explaing the philosophy and the justification of enjoying the pleasures of the senses.
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