Excerpt from The Play of Brahma: An Essay on the Drama in National Revival
Indian drama, like other Indian arts, is credited with a divine origin. Ancient scriptures tell how the God Indra, at the instigation of other Gods, who felt the burden of celestial inactivity, approached the supreme Brahma with a request that He would create a play by means of which their eyes and ears would find exercise and enjoyment. The Creator thereupon went into meditation, and out of His meditation gave forth the Natya Veda, or Veda of Drama. This fifth Veda was not a new Veda, but a compilation from the others.
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