Sūdraka

The Little Clay Cart [Mṛcchakaṭika] मृच्छकटिका - 1 online resource : multiple file formats

Attributed to King Shudraka. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%E1%B9%9Bcchakatika Release date is 2007-04-10

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project.) Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Bruce Albrecht, Suzanne
Lybarger, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned
images of public domain material from the Google Print
project.)

"The Little Clay Cart [Mṛcchakaṭika]" by Sūdraka is a ten-act Sanskrit drama possibly from the 5th century CE. Set in ancient Ujjayini, it tells the story of Cārudatta, a noble but impoverished Brahmin, who falls in love with Vasantasenā, a wealthy courtesan. Their romance faces danger when a vulgar courtier aggressively pursues Vasantasenā. The play blends love, comedy, and political intrigue while breaking tradition by focusing on fictional characters rather than mythology and featuring peasants speaking various dialects. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



Sanskrit drama -- Translations into English Indic drama

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