Seven Words In Bharata What Do They Signify (An Old And Rare Book)

THIS work, elsewhere referred to as Problems Connected with Some Technical Terms Used by Bharata, has now been changed to Seven Words in Bharata: What do They Signify. This has a history, rather personal, but I feel obliged to mention it.

Till very late I did not know that I would ever be called upon to write a book dealing only with the textual problems of the Natyasastra. I started writing it more as a by-product while working on the Sattvikabhavas. So long as I was studying alankara at the feet of my esteemed guru, Mahamahopadhyaya, Kalaprapurna, Tātā Subbaraya Sastri garu of Vizianagaram, I did not doubt the familiar or popular explanation of the Sattvikabhavas. It was later when I began to study the texts on alankara independently that I felt a growing discontent with the usual explanations. By the time my ideas took concrete shape I was engaged in working on Indian Iconometry in Viśva-Bharati under the late Dr. P.C. Bagchi, then Director of Research and later Vice-Chancellor of Viśva- Bharati, and the impulse to write something on the Sättvikabhavas became irresistible. When I asked him for his views, with his habitual generosity he gave me ready encouragement, and I proceeded with the work.