Posted by Urmila on December 08, 2007 at 21:21:27:

 In Reply to: Re: musings posted by Raga on December 08, 2007 at 09:40:54:

 Can you tell us more about your reconstruction of the 7 yatis, please?

Natya Shastra is a relatively recent text. It is a smiriti, not shruti, text, i.e. it is a concise and simplified form of the Natya Veda.

Urjvasi is an apsara, and apsaras do not have husbands, in case you want to know. :-) Otherwise it would be very immoral of Indra to send her to seduce Arjuna. :-)
The human things do not apply to the gandharvas or gods.

"Titles of excellence" are a matter of political arrangements, and I do not care if they call Shobana or Jayalalitha as "Urjvasi": they will not dance better because of the title, will they? :-) I think that Urjvasi would not be bothered to hear that her name was "given" as a title even to the winner of a Chennai dog fight competition. These gandharvas are notoriously indifferent to the human world! It is outrageous! :-)

Instead of spending the last decade trying to find out what dance form might have been employed to the ancient yatis, why didn't you meditate, meet Urjvasi in the invisible worlds and ask her to show and teach the yatis for you? After all, isn't it how things were learnt in the olden times?
 
 

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