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ably develops. The authorities very well display their distinct power of logical analysis and practical acumen. They give considerable freedom to the dramatist in the making of his plot.85 It is not, therefore, quite correct to say that the later dramatists were bound, hand and foot, by the rigid dramatic rules.
85 They allow him freedom to invent the plot in a prakaraṇa and suitably modify stories from the Itihāsa etc. As Śsigāra and Vira rasas are univesally popular they show sound realism and practical wisdom in prescribing either of them as the principal rasa in the full-fledged drama.
