The "fifth Veda" of drama. The Natyashastra tells that Brahma made it from the other four Vedas (recitation from the Rig, song from the Sama, gesture from the Yajus, rasa from the Atharva) and, unlike the Vedas, opened it to everyone, of every caste and gender.

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  So Brahma made a fifth Veda, the Natyaveda , and he made it out of the other four: recitation drawn from the Rigveda , song from the Sama, the art of gesture from the Yajus, and rasa itself from the Atharva.

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