Natyasastra, ascribed to Bharata Muni, is primarily a text for theatrical arts. But as dance, gesture, music, poetry, costume, masks and decoration as essential ingredients of theatre, the Natyasastra is regarded as a fundamental text for them also. The author has elicited the response and contributions of a wide range of performers and critics, dramatists and researchers have spent a lifetime with the Natyasastra.