Sanskrit drama emerged between the 1st and 10th centuries CE in India. Plays were primarily written in Sanskrit and dealt with themes from history and mythology involving kings, heroes, and supernatural beings. Only elite characters spoke Sanskrit, while others used Prakrit languages. One of the most famous and influential plays was Shakuntala by Kalidasa, which is known for its lovely poetry, humor, and resolved conflicts. Sanskrit drama aimed to elicit rasas or flavors - aesthetic sentiments and passions in audiences through the works.

1. Sanskrit drama

2. Sanskrit?
 is a highly-inflected, Indo-European
language, related to classical Greek and
Latin.
 It was primarily a literary language
employed for documenting the affairs of
state and for composing literary art.

3.  It emerges in fragments and short pieces
beginning in the first century, CE, and continuing
to the tenth century.
 The most commonly read and performed
examples of Sanskrit drama include plays
by Bhasa, Sudraka, and, especially, Kalidasa.

4. Sanskrit Plays
 The plays often concern the exploits of the
kings and heroes of history.
 Supernatural beings of several varieties
play important roles in the stories of
Sanskrit drama. Important characters in
Sanskrit dramas also come from the
middle and lower classes, including
soldiers, merchants, and hermits and
sages.

5.  it end happily, with conflicts comfortably
resolved.
 Only the most elite characters in the plays
—divine beings, kings, and brahmans—
speak Sanskrit. Other characters,
including soldiers, merchants,
townspeople, etc., and very nearly all
women, speak a variety of colloquial
languages referred to, collectively,
as Prakrits.

6. Shakuntala(by Kalidasa)
 Indisputably the chief representative of
mythological Sanskrit drama.
 It is known for its lovely poetry, playfulness,
and uninterrupted humor.

7. Theory of Rasa or Flavor
 sometimes translated as sentient.
 An aesthetic relish: resultant passions
elicited in the audience.

8. Rasa or Flavor
 It is viewed by Amiya Kumas Dev as
pleasant sentiment belonging to the
reader whose dominant emotions,
derived from experiences or inherited
instincts are evoked by the reading of
poems into an ideal or impersonalized
form of joy.