A play in this language ends as the drunken protagonist realizes that a dog, not a holy man, has stolen his bowl made from a skull. In a play based on a tale in this language, a woman is banished from heaven when she accidentally says her lover’s name during a play. A dramaturgical treatise in this language outlines the eight color-coded forms of an aesthetic feeling that translates to “juice” or “flavor.” The metatheatrical prologue to Goethe’s Faust was inspired by a (*) seven-act play in this language that begins as a king is told not to kill a deer. In that play in this language, two lovers who first meet in a hermitage are reunited after a fisherman finds a signet ring in the belly of a fish. For 10 points, name this language used by The Recognition of Shakuntala author Kālidāsa. ■END■
ANSWER: Sanskrit [or saṃskṛtam] (The first sentence refers to A Farce of Drunken Sport by Mahendravarman I. The second sentence refers to Vikramōrvaśīyam by Kālidāsa. The third sentence refers to the concept of rasa in Nāṭyaśāstra by Bharata.)
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