Navarasa Natyashastra  is an ancient Indian Sanskrit text on performing arts. Although, lite rally, natya-shastra means drama-study, Natyashastra is not limited to drama. In fact, it encompasses a whole gamut of dance, drama,music and poetics, embellished with rich mythology.   Spanning across 36 chapters and more than 6000 verses, Natyashastra is an encyclopedic work covering topics from structure of a play and the construction of a stage to genres of acting, body movements, make up and costumes, role and goals of an art director, grammar, the musical scale and what not.  *;* What are the nine emotions? The tantric tradition recognizes nine Rasas that represent our basic emotions:  Love, Joy, Wonder, Courage, Calmness, Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Disgust. *;*What is Rasa in dance? Perhaps the most important chapter of Natyashastra is Chapter 6- The Rasa Theory. In the Indian performing arts, a  rasa  is a sentiment, mood or emotion evoked in members of the audience by the art. The  ras

Origin of Natyashastra   In the origin of Indian theatre, Natyashastra the performing arts is attributed by sage Bharat Muni dated between in 200BC with the origin of drama. Birth of Natyashastra:-  In very olden days people were uncivilized and ruled by lust, greed, and anger and jealous with demons. Seeing this scenario, Indra and other gods went to Brahma to ask a solution for people to be in peace .Brahma explained that Vedas introduced by him were neglected by people and hence the commotion. Indra explained that people were unaware of the goodness of Vedas and the Sudras were not allowed to learn Vedas. He requested for a book  to people to divert them from evil approaches. In these circumstances Brahma extracted the elements from all four Vedas and created ‘ Natyaveda ’.  The elements were ‘ recitation ’ from Rigveda , ‘ songs ’ from Samveda , ‘ Acting ’ from Yajurveda and a‘Sentiments ’ from Atharvana veda.  It was heav