As mentioned already earlier, the Natyashastra<\/i> regards the text as the basis of theatre. How the text is then employed and constructed varies greatly in different styles of theatre. It can be, for example, written as a drama script with dialogue combining prose and verse or it can be recited or sung by singers while the actors mainly mime the actions and reactions described in the text etc.<\/p>\n
The plots of the plays are regularly supplied by the Puranas<\/i>, or the mythological stories, and the great epics, the Mahabharata<\/i> and the Ramayana<\/i><\/a>, already described above<\/b>. These corner stones of Indian thinking and imagery served the culture more or less similarly as the ancient Greek literature and mythology did in the Western world. They have been recycled and reinterpreted again and again for over two millennia.<\/p>\nBhakti<\/i>, Ecstatic Love<\/h2>\n\n\t\t