The origin myth at NS XXXVI says the drama descended from heaven to earth because Bharata's sons offended sages by caricaturing them with buffoonery and indulgence in vulgar passions. The sages cursed them. The sons became Śūdras. The art form fell out of the gods' world and into the human world by way of this exact failure.
This is not a passing detail. The framework names the creator's temptation — the pull toward caricature, toward easy laughs at others' expense, toward content that performs sophistication while running on cheap-vulgar substrate — as the constitutive failure-mode of the dramatic form itself. The origin myth says: the art form arrived in the human world because someone could not resist this temptation. The form remembers its own fall.
The sons did not fail because they were bad. They failed because they had access to powerful representational craft and used it for vulgar-easy targets. Every modern creator with reach has the same problem. The framework's origin myth is operationally specific advice: the form falls when the practitioner uses representational power for caricature instead of for the sentiments the form was designed to deliver.
First wire (obvious): Don't punch down with your craft. Don't use representational power for cheap-vulgar targets. This is the standard creative-ethics line and the framework's myth gives it specific origin-grounding.
Second wire (deeper): The framework's claim is that the creator's vulgar-passion-indulgence is not occasional — it is constitutive. Every creator faces this pull, structurally, as a feature of having representational power. The Sons of Bharata didn't have a special flaw; they had the standard creator-equipment and they fell to the standard creator-temptation. The myth says: this is what creators do. The discipline is what resists.
Third wire (uncomfortable): If the form arrived in the human world through this failure, then the failure is part of the form's nature in the human world. Earthly drama is not the pure form the gods rehearsed in heaven — it is the form as practiced by people who have already lost something through caricature. The modern creator is downstream of this fall. The discipline is not climbing back up to heaven; it is operating within the fallen form without forgetting what was lost.
Essay seed: "Why Bharata's sons fell, and what every modern creator can learn from it about the temptation to caricature."
Concept page candidate: "The Caricature Temptation" — could live in creative-practice if a second source treats this specifically. Hold for now.
[ ] A second source touches this independently [ ] Has survived two sessions without weakening [x] The Live Wire second or third framing holds [ ] Has a falsifiable core claim