ABSTRACT
The two predominant aspects of art and worship in India are the music and the dance together, and the sculpture which froze them into stone on the sun-bleached temple walls of India. Bharata is a man who has given his name to the Bible of Indian dance, the Bharata Natya Shastra, a treatise which has been dated variously by Sanskrit scholars as having been set down between the second century bc and the fourth century ad. Bharata carried on the most intensive investigation into bhava, the state of mind with which Hindus are primarily concerned in all their philosophy, as being different from outward behaviour and moral attitudes. Bhava is intrinsic to the whole theory of Indian aesthetics in all the fields of art. The next landmarks are the treatises of Narada and Matanga of about the seventh century ad. Narada also codified the shrutis or microtones which cause controversy among theoreticians of Indian music.
