Bhāsa's Treatment of the Kṛṣṇa Legend

Among the 'cycle of Bhasa plays,' we have the Balasarita which dra- matizes the childhood-life of Krsna, beginning with his divine birth and closing with the killing of Kamhsa, The dramatic form necessarily imposes selection and presentation of chosen material; so that certain incidents may be omitted or merely narrated, certain details may be modified

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भट्ट भासकृत 'बालचरित' की तुलना हरिवंश और भागवत से करते हैं। यह नाटक कृष्ण के जन्म से कंस-वध तक की कथा मंचित करता है। कृष्ण को आठवें के बजाय सातवाँ सन्तान मानने जैसे भेद किसी अन्य स्रोत अथवा कृष्ण-कथा के पूर्ववर्ती रूप की ओर संकेत करते हैं। Bhat compares the Balacarita, the Bhasa play dramatising Krsna's childhood up to the killing of Kamsa, with the Harivamsa and Bhagavata. Its departures, chiefly the counting of Krsna as the seventh child rather than the eighth, point to a different source or to an earlier phase of the legend.

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