Excerpt from The Home of the Puppet-Play: An Address It was probably much the same in India as in Europe. I have already mentioned that Maya and Visarada, the only two puppet makers whose names we know, are described as mechanicians.42 We are entitled to assume that in the puppet-show the 577174 (l/ezim was the actor, who moved the puppets and spoke for them; the sl/zzipa/ea the man whose duties consisted, first and foremost, in making, mending, and putting them on the stage. However thatqmay be, it is certain that two of the most important members of the personnel of the oldest Indian stage have, as their names show, been taken over from the puppet-play. And this is not the only fact which tends to prove that the Indian drama was developed out of the puppet-play. Other facts point to the same conclusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.