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Bhasa Authorship Debate

4 articles on Bhasa Authorship Debate from The Indian Historical Quarterly, published 1925–1938. Each entry has a summary of the article; open it for the full summary, citation and original PDF.

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The Indian Historical Quarterly · 4

Articles on Bhasa Authorship Debate

  1. Contributions to the Bhasa Question

    By Otto Stein · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1938

    Otto Stein addresses the long‑debated “Bhāsa question”: whether the thirteen Sanskrit plays attributed to the ancient dramatist Bhāsa are authentic and how they should be dated. He laments that Indological evidence is so unreliable that the age of a work…

  2. Svapna-nataka and Svapna-vasavadatta

    By V. Venkatarama Sharma · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1929

    Svapna-nataka and Svapna-vasavadatta are two distinct Sanskrit dramas attributed to different authors and periods. Svapna-nataka, published by Dr. Sastri in 1912 as part of the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series, was initially misidentified as Svapna-vasavadatta.…

  3. The Bhasa Problem - II, III. (Implications of the theory)

    By K. Rama Pisharoti · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925

    The Bhasa Problem (II, III) discusses key implications of the "Bhasa-Nataka-Cakra" theory, focusing on linguistic and dramatic evidence. Proponents argue the plays exhibit archaic language, Prakrit peculiarities, and unique dramatic techniques predating…

  4. The Bhasa Problem

    By K. Rama Pisharoti · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925

    The Bhasa Problem centers on the controversial attribution of the Sanskrit drama *Svapna-Vasavadatta* to the pre-Kalidasa dramatist Bhasa. The discovery and publication of the text under this name in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series led to widespread acceptance…