How to pronounce“natyasastra”in English

The Natyasastra lists six ways you can move your nose, nine ways you can move your neck.

Obviously we’re not going to have time to summarize all of the Natyasastra–turns out there are LOTS of nose movements; I’m partial to this one –but

Besides what types of plays there are, the Natyasastra has a lot of ideas about how plays should be staged.

Sometime in the common era, Bharata Muni wrote the Natyasastra, which is basically an all-purpose guide to theater: How to write it, how to stage it, how to watch it, all the different

After that exciting origin story, the Natyasastra introduces the idea of rasas.