Description of Utsṛṣṭāṅka

Utsṛṣṭāṅka depicts a well-known story. Bharata, however, permits even an imaginary plot to form its basis. It has only moral characters. Mainly it contains the pathetic sentiment (Karuṇa-Rasa); and there is a total absence of strife and affrays. It has profuse lamentations of bewailing women, and speeches full of remorse and sorrow, but the end is never tragic. There is only one and one mode of behaviour, namely, the Bharata Vṛtti. It is called an “Utsrshtanka” for the reason of absence of other Vṛtti’s; and as such, it is an isolated piece dealing with the one incident of bewailing of a person whose life is about to end^[1].