Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharatamuni manuscript tradition
South Asian Traditions Textual corpus / teaching
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About this record
Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharatamuni manuscript tradition is cataloged as a Textual corpus / teaching within South Asian Traditions. Its candidate country context is “India” and its period or origin is “Historical textual and manuscript tradition; the cited UNESCO record describes codification around the second century BCE and records 2025 Memory of the World registration.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Indian dramaturgical, aesthetic, and performance-text traditions.”
This summary is assembled only from the record fields shown below. It does not add ritual instructions, doctrinal claims or inferred geography.
Record fields
- Alternate / historical names
- Manuscript of the Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharatamuni; Natyasastra manuscript; Bharata Nāṭyaśāstra
- Parent tradition
- Indian dramaturgical, aesthetic, and performance-text traditions
- Public geographic context
- India
- Period / origin
- Historical textual and manuscript tradition; the cited UNESCO record describes codification around the second century BCE and records 2025 Memory of the World registration
- Living / historical status
- Extant manuscript in Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute custody; wider textual reception continues
- Access / protocol
- Scholarly / historical only
- Evidence status
- Directly cited
Geography
CandidateIndia
This record also has global, transnational, diaspora, textual or doctrinal context and is not reduced to one country.
Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.
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Stable attribution
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Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharatamuni manuscript tradition. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 3684. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/3684
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