Bharata: The Natyasastra

The theory of rasa enunciated by Bharata has stimulated both creativity and critical discourse in the Indian arts for nearly two thousand years. The text of the Natyasastra as relevant to literature, poetry and drama as it is to architecture, sculpture, painting, music and dance. Its comprehensive treatment of artistic experience, expression and communication content and form emerges from an integral vision which flowers as a many branched tree of all Indian arts.