prahasanaM 1 Loud or violent laughter, laughing, mirth. 2 Ridicule, ( pb ) mockery, irony, joke; Dik prahasanaM U. 4. 3 Satire, satirical writing. 4 A farce, a kind of low comedy; S. D. thus defines it: - BARavatsaMDisaMDyaMgalAsyAMgAMkOrvinimartiM . Bavet prahasanaM vfttaM niMdyAnAM kavikalpitaM .. 533 et seq. ; e. g. kaMdarpakeli .