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The Art of Pantomime in Kerala

By C. S. Srinivasachari

Vol. 9 · No. 4December - 1933pp. 967–968English

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  • “Dancing was cultivated 85 a fine art hy the ancient Tamils; and much information regarding it is available in the Silappadhildram from which we know that the people were familiar with two kinds of plays, Arvan and Tamil.”
  • “The Kathakali is a dumh show, and there is an elaborate system of mwdras which have to be learnt hy those who have to train themnselves to be actors.”

Works cited in this article

  1. V. Swaminatha Iver's Edition (1832)
  2. The Progress of Cochin, 23. 342-3 edited by T. K. Krishna Menon (1032)
  3. AUJ., vol. I, part I, pp. 105-10

Discussed in this article

People

  • V. Poduval
  • Mr. Menon
  • E. R. Dpisharoti

Texts & works

  • Kathakali
  • Silappadhiilaram
  • Bharatu-Natyasastra
  • Hastalaksapapradipikd
  • Abhinayaderpana

Dynasties, sects & groups

  • Congress of Orientalists

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Vol. 9 · No. 4
829–834Kalidasa in ChinaLouis Finot835–853Vamana's Theory of Riti and GunaPrakash Chandra Lahiri854–865Krsna and JarasandhaSadashiva L. Katre866–871The Rise of Najib-ud-daulaJadunath Sarkar872–879The Architecture of the Taj and its ArchitectShyam Chand Mukherjee880–885The Puranic Traditions - (about earlier homes and migrations of the Indian Aryas)Narayana Tripathi886–897The Origin of the MalpahariasSasanka Sarkar898–911Some Sanskrit Texts on PaintingV. Raghavan912–922Two Types of Subjectivism in Monistic VedantaMakhanlal Mukherji923–929The Date of KarkacaryaG. B. Makoday930–933Literary Reference to SamudraguptaRamesh Chandra Majumdar934–942An almost Contemporary Account of Mahmud's Invasions of IndiaSri Ram Sharma943–947Daspalla Copper-Plate AgreementBinayak Misra948–950King Narasimha of Gaunda and the study of the Mahabhasya in BengalJogendra Chandra Ghosh951–956Early History of the Gahadavala DynastyDhirendra Chandra Ganguly957–966Epigraphic NotesDineshchandra Sircar967–968The Art of Pantomime in KeralaC. S. SrinivasachariCurrent article969–972The Dasas of the Karnatak CountryS. Hanumantha Rao973–977Hindu Theatre (Part 1)D. R. Mankad978–979AryadevaVidhushekhara Bhattacharya979–980Sankaracarya and DharmakirtiVidhushekhara Bhattacharya981Sankara's Reference to a Buddhist PassageVidhushekhara Bhattacharya981–983A so-called Convention of the Hindu DramaMano Mohan Ghosh984–986Varahamihira and BuzurjmehrAdinath Neminath Upadhye987–988Syntactic Position of the Preposition in ArdhamagadhiAdinath Neminath Upadhye989–991Vainyagupta DvadasadityaRamesh Chandra Majumdar991–994Hindu Theatre (Part 2)V. Raghavan995–1003The Seventh All-India Oriental ConferenceP. C. Bagchi1004–1030ReviewsBatakrishna Ghosh, Edward J. Thomas1031–1039Select Contents of Oriental Journals1041–1042Addendum: Some Sanskrit Texts on PaintingV. Raghavan

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