Probable Reasons for Deviations and Innovations

It should be said that the deviations from the original and innovations made by the dramatist, bear no negative impact upon the original Rāmāyaṇic story of the drama. Rather, it is to be added that the changes noticed in the story of the play have been able to present the contextual events in a more dramatic and convincing way and here lies the justification of the deviations and innovations. As hinted earlier, the probable reason for such changes incorporated to the Rāma story of the Rāmāyaṇa may be that the original text of Vālmīki and the work of Dāmodara Miśra belong to two separate classes of literary forms. While the first one is a Śravyakāvya, the latter is a Dṛśyakāvya. A dramatist faces some sort of poetic difficulties in presenting a theme borrowed from a work which is not stage-friendly. However, in order to present the story in a vivid, convincing and realistic manner, a dramatist gets compelled to introduce certain changes to the theme collected from other sources. This is supposed to be the reason behind the deviations and innovations met with the Rāmāyaṇa story represented in the Hanumannāṭaka It should be mentioned that these changes or modifications go in favour of the ability of Śrī Dāmodara Miśra as a dramatist.