While preparing the present edition, care has been taken to ensure that it becomes a concise guide to the students of Indian Theory of Dance as well for the research scholars. An elaborate introduction and a summary of contents of Bharatarnava, another text on Indian dance attributed to Nandikesvara is also given for the general readers.  This work tries to give a faithful translation of the text Abhinayadarpana and the author have added as appendix few information which would be of immense value to both practising dancers as well as theorists of dance studies.