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प्रवेशकः (pravezakaH)

 
Apte
English
प्रवेशकः [pravēśakḥ], 'The introducer', an interlude acted by inferior characters (such as servants, buffoon
&c.
 ) for the purpose of acquainting the audience with events not represented on the stage, but a knowledge of which is essential for the proper understanding of what follows
(like the Viṣkambhaka it connects the story of the drama and the subdivisions of the plot, by briefly referring to what has occurred in the intervals of the acts, or what is likely to happen at the end
it never occurs at the beginning of the first act or at the end of the last). S. D. thus defines it: प्रवेशको$नु- दात्तोक्त्या नीचपात्रप्रयोजितः । अङ्कद्वयान्तर्विज्ञेयः शेषं विष्कम्भके यथा ॥ 39
see विष्कम्भक
cf.
Ve.*
 3.
Apte 1890
English
प्रवेशकः ‘The introducer, ’ an interlude acted by inferior characters (such as servants, buffoon &c.) for the purpose of acquainting the audience with events not represented on the stage, but a knowledge of which is essential for the proper understanding of what follows
(like the Viṣkambhaka it connects the story of the drama and the subdivisions of the plot, by briefly referring to what has occurred in the intervals of the acts, or what is likely to happen at the end
it never occurs at the beginning of the first act or at the end of the last). S. D. thus defines it:
प्रवेशकोऽ नुदात्तोक्त्या नीचपात्रप्रयोजितः । अंकद्वयांतर्विज्ञेयः शेषं विष्कंभके यथा ॥ 308
see विष्कंभक.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
प्रवेशकः
पुं*
 - प्र + विश् + ण्वुल्
"परिचायक, निम्नपात्रों द्वारा अभिनीत विष्कंभक"