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Who amongst the following for the first time introduced a new device in Indian drama i.e. drama within a drama (garabha-nataka) ?

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UGC NET 2015 Paper 1 Question Paper (27-Dec-2015)
The correct answer is

Harsha

A garbha-nataka is a short play staged inside the main play, much like the play scene in Hamlet.

King Harshavardhana used this device in his comedy Priyadarshika, where the love story of Udayana is enacted as a play within the play.

Bana and Mayura were poets of Harsha's court known for prose romance and devotional verse, and Divakara was another court poet, not a dramatist of this kind.

Hence, Harsha.

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