1 Loud or violent laugh- ter, laughing, mirth.

2 Ridicule, [Page0768-b+ 57] mockery, irony, joke; dhik prahasanaṃ U. 4.

3 Satire, satirical writing.

4 A farce, a kind of low comedy; S. D. thus defines it: bhāṇavatsaṃdhisaṃdhyaṃga- lāsyāṃgāṃkaurvinimartiṃ. bhavet prahasanaṃ vṛttaṃ niṃdyānāṃ kavikalpitaṃ.. 533 et seq.; e. g. kaṃdarpa- keli.