Nandikeshvara (; 5th century – 4th century BC) was a major theatrologist of ancient India. He was the author of the .
Nandikeshvara (; 5th century – 4th century BC) was a major theatrologist of ancient India. He was the author of the .
==Influence on Bharata== Nandikeshvara seems to have preceded Bharata, according to Ramakrishna Kavi. Some consider him to be Bharata's master. The most concrete example of Nandikeshvara's teachings have survived thanks to Bharata. The poet and playwright Bharata who wrote in Sanskrit, scrupulously executed "in his stage direction a good number of theoretical instructions received from Nandikeshvara, overtly disregarding the strict injunctions formulated by Bharata as it is manifest in the spectacle of kutiyattam." Bharata’s plays had seemed, indeed, to ignore major inhibitions imposed by Bharata : for instance, that of fighting or inflicting capital punishment on the stage, etc. Even if it cannot be proved that the Kutiyattam is as old as Bharata's texts, nobody can disregard the considerable influence of this prince among playwrights on the traditional abhinaya we are speaking of, probably one of the oldest in the world.
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