4. Praveshaka (link between two chapters)

The Dasharupakadhyaya of Natyashastra gives a clear description about the structure of ‘Praveshaka’ in a drama. The pravshaka is a link between two chapters for giving hints about an incident which will take more than one day for completing it.

Here, the relevant points from the given structure are discusses as follows:

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If there is a necessityof travelling to a far country,it should be performed after the completion of an act.

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Praveshakamay create in the form of a conversation between the attendants.[...]

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The praveshaka should properly apply between the acts.

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An event happened in a month or year should portray able in a praveshaka by breaking an Act. But, never show what happened in more than one year.

According to Dasharupaka Praveshaka can be defined as follows:

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Praveshaka should apply after the end of two acts, performed by the subaltern characters who give hints about the story of the forthcoming act.

In Sahityadarpana it is referred as given below:

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Praveshaka should be a connection between two acts,to be performed by any subaltern characters. Prakrita can be use as the language of Praveshaka.

In Annadatri-carita, the playwright constructed the Praveshaka as a conversation between two lady attendants Lalita and Malati. It occurs between the end of second act and the starting of the third act.

Their dialogues are given in Sanskrit language. It gives the information about the journey of king Vancishvara towards Kurukshetra. Thus the playwright applied almost all the rules about Praveshaka described in dramaturgy except in the case of language used by the maid servants.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Narayanapisharody K.P., Natyasasthram–II (Malayalam Tr.), (Thrissur: Kerala SahityaAkademi, December 2014), 14.

[2]:

Ibid., 15.

[3]:

Idem.

[4]:

Idem.

[5]:

The Dasharupa A treatise on Hindu Dramatrgy, C.O. George HAS, (New York: Columbia University press, 1912), 32.

[6]:

Sahityadarpana of Vishvanathakaviraja, Ed. by Acharya Sheshraja Sharma Regmi, (Varanasi: ChowkhambaKrishnadas Academy, 2004), 284.