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Classification of Poetry
857 upālambham ca kurute,
geye śrigaditam bhavet." This is the same as Bhoja. This is 'geya/preksya. - It is an art-form where song (geya) and also dance predominate. H. accepts Bhoja.
The Nātyadarpaņa has (ND. IV. Sūtra 299/1, 2) : śrīr iva dānavaśatror yasmin kuláñganā patyuḥ ... etc. This is accepted from Bhoja without any change. No illustration is cited. Śaradātanaya has - (BP. IX. 13, pp. 378, Edn. Agrawal, ibid) -
“atha śrīgaditam vidyāt prasiddhódātta-nāyakam, bhāratī-vítti-bahulam udātta-vacanánvitam. garbhāvamarśa-sandhibhyām śūnyam, prakhyāta nāyakam, ekánkam vipralambhākhya-rasa-prāyam kvacit kvacit. yasmin kulanganā patyuḥ śaurya-dhairyā"dikān guņān, sakhīnām agrato vakti, tān upālabhate'tha vā. vipralabdhā ca tenaiva, yadi, tatsangamā”śayā āsīnā, yatra lalitam priyābhoga-vibhūşitam utkanthitā pathed-gāyet pāțhyam vā gītam eva vā, evamvidham śrīgaditam
rāmā”nandam yathā krtam." Śāradātanaya has something more to say, than the earlier writers. He cites an example viz., Rāmā”nandam. For Śāradātanaya, this art-form is not just all dance and music but is a play, a type of drama, with one act and three samdhis such as
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