BarataH [ BaraM tanoti taR-qa ] 1 N. of the son of Duṣyanta and Śakuntalā, who became a universal monarch ( cakravartin ), India being called Bhāratavarṣa after him. He was one of the remote ancestors of the Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas; cf. Ś. 7. 33. 2 N. of a brother of Rāma, son of Kaikeyī, the youngest wife of Daśaratha. He was very pious and righteous, and was so much devoted to Rāma that when the latter prepared to go to the forest in accordance with the wicked demand of Kaikeyī, he was very much grieved to find that his own mother had sent his brother into exile, and refusing the sovereignty that was his own, ruled the kingdom in the name of Rāma (by bringing from him his two sandals and making them the ‘regents’ of the realm) till he returned after his fourteen years’ exile. 3 N. of an ancient sage who is supposed to have been the founder of the science of music and dramaturgy. 4 An actor, a stage-player; tatkramitmudAsate BaratAH Māl. 1. 5 A hired soldier, mercenary. 6 A barbarian, mountaineer. 7 An epithet of Agni. 8 A weaver. 9 N. of the sage Jaḍabharata. Comp. — agrajaH ‘the elder brother of Bharata’, an epithet of Rāma; R. 14. 73. — fzaBaH, -SArdUlaH , SrezWaH the best or most distinguished of the descendants of Bharata. — KaMqaM N. of a part of India. — jYa a. knowing the science of Bharata or the dramatic science. — putrakaH an actor. — varzaH ‘the country of Bharata’, i. e. India. — vAkyaM the last verse or verses in a drama, a sort of benediction (said to be in honour of Bharata, the founder of the dramatic science); taTApIdamastu BaratavAkya (occurring in every play).