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APPENDIX B
CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Like Aristotle, Sanskrit dramatists also always paid parti-
cular attention to a well-developed plot which is the
essential element of a drama being successful and interesting.
Characterization, though a necessary factor comes next in
importance to the development of plot. Characterization
mostly depends upon the arrangement of the incidents which
bring about the circumstances that become helpful to the
individuals in revealing their different traits of character.
So in order to make a dramatic plot, a well-constituted
organic whole, shorn of its unessential characteristics,—
Sanskrit dramatugy gives a detailed analysis of the technique
of development of the plot.
Concerning the plot of a drama three technical terms
are to be taken into consideration first, viz., अर्थप्रकृति (charac-
teristic elements of the plot); अवस्था (stages of develop-
ment of the plot) and सन्धि (junctures). These three constitute
the different aspects of the plot which broadly takes two
forms—आधिकारिक ( the principal or the main plot ) and प्रासङ्गिक
(the subsidiary plot which may take the dimension of an
episode or an incident). अर्थप्रकृतिs ( characteristic elements of
the plot) are five in number such as बीज (germ) बिन्दु (drop,