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Debaprasad Das were actively involved in the reconstruction of Odissi dance. 16. Marga may be defined as a pan-Indian stylized form of dramatic performance elucidated in the
ancient treatise on dramaturgy, the Natyasastra. The term desi was applied to regional forms of performance. Studies of Sanskrit and vernacular texts on dramaturgy indicate that marga and desi were not mutually exclusive; each evolved in the influence of the other through many centuries. For a detailed discussion on the problematic issues concerning these terms, see
Chapter VI, Shah 2000. 17. Mahari is a term addressed to the female temple ritual dancers (devadasis) of Orissa. 18. Radhika Varma, a member of the Cochin royal family, is the founding member of the TKK. She
was trained by Kalamandalam Krishna Nair, a great exponent of Kathakali. In Chapter I, verses 7-12, the canons of drama enunciated in the Natyasastra are referred to by other learned sages as the “Natyaveda" (Ghosh 1967), the fifth Veda comparable to the earlier four great books of knowledge -- the Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda and Atharvaveda. See also, Erndl 1997, where the author states that, "the general thrust of Shakta theology is to affirm the reality, power and life force that pervades the material world. Matter itself, while always changing, is sacred and is not different from spirit. The Goddess is the totality of all existence. . . . As a mythic model for women, to look up to, the Goddess provides not just a transcendent ideal for women to look up to, but also an immanent presence in whose divinity they can participate (pg. 21).
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Brown, C. Mackenzie. "The Theology of Radha in the Puranas." In The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India, edited by John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, 57-71. Berkeley, CA: Graduate Theological Union in collaboration with New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidas Publishers, 1982.
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