Traditionally assigned to Bharata, a legendary sage, Natya Shastra is one among the famous trio of India, the other two being Kautilya's Artha Shastra and Vatsyayana’s Kama Shastra.
All the three works form the encyclopedia of Indian civilization. While the major subject in Kautilya's work is polity and government, Kama Shastra deals with man’s artistic pursuits and accomplishments.
Both the works leave no stone unturned in matters concerning body and mind. Bharata’s work provides exhibitions in the visual arts. All the three works speak of the glory of India and proclaim to the world that Indian education did not stop with the scriptures and the philosophies.
As we Indians have “no sense of history”, it is no wonder that nothing definite is known about Bharata or the date of composition of his Natya Shastra.
External evidence gives us a clue that the Sanskrit work was available to Mahakavi Kalidasa, as he refers to its author in his lyrical work Vikramorvasi. And so there is sufficient evidence to surmise that Bharata lived about 400 BCE or even earlier.
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