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The Little Clay Cart [Mṛcchakaṭika]
by Sūdraka
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About This Book
The Clay Toy-cart remains one of the foundational works of Sanskrit drama, having been performed numerous times around the world and even serving as the inspiration for Girish Karnad's highly acclaimed film Utsav.The story follows the fortunes of a rich and beautiful courtesan, Vasantasena, who falls in love with the handsome Charudatta, a former merchant who is now penniless. Although Charudatta is happily married, he is deeply drawn to Vasantasena. The two embark on a love affair that leads to some terrible complications and shocking reversals of fortune-involving violent crime as well as po...
Chapters (236)
- HARVARD ORIENTAL SERIES
- EDITED WITH THE COÖPERATION OF VARIOUS SCHOLARS
- CHARLES ROCKWELL LANMAN
- WALES PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
- Volume Nine
- CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
- Published by Harvard University 1905
- THE LITTLE CLAY CART
- [MṚCCHAKAṬIKA]
- A Hindu Drama
- ATTRIBUTED TO KING SHŪDRAKA
- TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SANSKRIT AND PRĀKRITS INTO ENGLISH PROSE AND VERSE
- ARTHUR WILLIAM RYDER, Ph.D.
- INSTRUCTOR IN SANSKRIT IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
- CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Published by Harvard University 1905
- TO MY FATHER
- WILLIAM HENRY RYDER
- CONTENTS
- NOTE BY THE EDITOR
- PREFACE
- FOOTNOTES:
- INTRODUCTION I. THE AUTHOR AND THE PLAY
- II. THE TRANSLATION
- III. AN OUTLINE OF THE PLOT
- FOOTNOTES:
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
- SCENE
- THE LITTLE CLAY CART
- PROLOGUE
- Benediction upon the audience
- END OF THE PROLOGUE
- ACT THE FIRST
- THE GEMS ARE LEFT BEHIND
- FOOTNOTES:
- ACT THE SECOND
- THE SHAMPOOER[39] WHO GAMBLED
- FOOTNOTES:
- ACT THE THIRD
- THE HOLE IN THE WALL
- FOOTNOTES:
- ACT THE FOURTH
- MADANIKA AND SHARVILAKA
- FOOTNOTES:
- ACT THE FIFTH
- THE STORM
- FOOTNOTES:
- ACT THE SIXTH
- THE SWAPPING OF THE BULLOCK-CARTS
- FOOTNOTES:
- ACT THE SEVENTH
- ARYAKA'S ESCAPE
- FOOTNOTES:
- ACT THE EIGHTH
- THE STRANGLING OF VASANTASENA
- FOOTNOTES:
- ACT THE NINTH
- THE TRIAL
- FOOTNOTES:
- ACT THE TENTH
- THE END
- FOOTNOTES:
- EPILOGUE
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