Bandha and Anibandha

Abstract

During the period that started with Someśvara in the eleventh century and ended with Mahārānā Kumbhā in the fifteenth, that is, the second period of the evolution of the concept of dance, we fmd that the thought of these authors focused on the division of dance into two traditions, a division that was firmly entrenched by the end of this period. One tradition was termed marga, and regarded as the central tradition established by Bharata, and the other deśī, the tradition which represented local and popular forms of dancing and which Bharata left out of his account. In this second period the most influential of all the authors was Śārngadeva who discussed deśī and continued to influence the authors in the third period of development.