Depiction of Nature in Bhasa deep chand yadav College

Men and nature had shared a very close relationship since the beginning of civilization. Ancient Sanskrit scriptures, Vedas and Upanishads, are a testimony to this closeness with innumerable descriptions of shlokas and mantras specifically composed for different components of nature; fire, rain, sun, moon, trees and many other. Nature was an inseparable part of the life of ancient people of India, glimpses can be seen in the Sanskrit epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata while much accurate account of life is stored in the common era plays of Bhasa, Kalidasa, Ilango Adigal and Sudraka.

Bhasa was the most renowned dramatist lived before Kalidasa, the allusion to his name is found in several plays. Kalidasa makes a reference to him in the play Malavikagnimitram drawing the attention of audience’s ignorance of not recognizing the works of poets like Bhasa, “why do the spectators pass over the composition of famous poets, like the honoured bard Bhasa… and do such great honour to the work of Kalidasa, a modern poet?”(2) Indeed, Bhasa’s plays were revered by the poets and dramatists and held in great authority. Until nineteenth century his plays were lost. Pandit Ganpat Shastri discovered them in Trivandrum Library in the form of archaic...