GK
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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Question
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Chanakya (Kautliya)
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Bharat Muni
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hint: The Natya Shastra is the basic work of dramatic theory, including a wide range of dance and music, in classical India. Complete answer: Bharata wrote the Natyashastra.
Detailed explanation-2: -Natyashastra is the earliest literature on music and drama – written somewhere around 500 BC by Bharata Muni. Comprising 6000 couplets in Sanskrit and spread over thirty-six chapters, Natyashastra’s focus was on dance and drama, with music as an aid. The title is a combination of two Sanskrit words – Natya and Shastra.
Detailed explanation-3: -Brahma Deva withdrew himself into an intense concentration of mind, recalled the four Vedas and created the fifth Veda called Natya Veda. He took the lyrics from the Rigveda, music from Samaveda, the language of gestures and emotions from the Yajurveda and the aesthetic experience or Rasa from Atharvaveda.