Bharata (Devanagari: भरत) was amuni (sage) ofancient India.[1] He is traditionally attributed authorship of the influentialperforming arts treatiseNatya Shastra, which covers ancient Indian dance, poetics,dramaturgy, andmusic.[1]
He is thought to have lived between 200 BCE and 200 CE,[2][3] but estimates vary between 500 BCE and 500 CE.[4]
Bharata is known only as being traditionally attributed authorship of the treatiseNatya Shastra. All other earlySanskrit treatises were similarly attributed to mythical sages.[1] The text draws on his authority, as existing in the public imagination.[5]
TheNāṭya Śāstra is notable as an ancient encyclopedic treatise on theperforming arts, which has influenced dance, music and literary traditions in India.[1] It is also notable for its aesthetic"Rasa" theory, which asserts that entertainment is the desired effect of performance arts but not the primary goal and that the primary goal is to transport the individual in the audience into another parallel reality, full of wonder, where he experiences the essence of his own consciousness and reflects on spiritual and moral questions.[citation needed]
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