A comprehensive ancient treatise on dramatic and aesthetic theory, developing a systematic account of how art produces emotional experience distinct from ordinary feeling.
The Natyashastra is a comprehensive treatise on dramatic and aesthetic theory, and it belongs in this archive as a reminder that the intellectual tradition it covers produced rigorous systematic thought about art and emotional experience, not only about metaphysics, ethics, and liberation.
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The classical scheme of four legitimate aims of human life — duty, prosperity, pleasure, and liberation — held in tension.
A cluster of ideas around duty, order, and right conduct that is understood differently across Indian traditions.