The Little Clay Cart [MṚCCHAKAṬIKA], Translated by Arthur William Ryder

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Author

Sūdraka

Title

The Little Clay Cart [Mṛcchakaṭika]

Credits

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

Language

English

LoC Class

PK: Language and Literatures: Indo-Iranian literatures

Subject

Indic drama

Category

Text

eBook-No.

21020

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21020

Release Date

April 10, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HARVARD ORIENTAL SERIES — EDITED WITH THE COÖPERATION OF VARIOUS SCHOLARS — BY
2. 2.Volume Nine — CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Published by Harvard University — 1905 — THE LITTLE CLAY CART — [MṚCCHAKAṬIKA]
3. 3.A Hindu Drama — ATTRIBUTED TO KING SHŪDRAKA — TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SANSKRIT AND PRĀKRITS INTO ENGLISH PROSE AND VERSE — BY
4. 4.ARTHUR WILLIAM RYDER, Ph.D . — INSTRUCTOR IN SANSKRIT IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY — CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Published by Harvard University — 1905 — TO MY FATHER
5. 5.WILLIAM HENRY RYDER
6. 6.CONTENTS
7. 7.NOTE BY THE EDITOR
8. 8.PREFACE — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.I. THE AUTHOR AND THE PLAY
10. 10.II. THE TRANSLATION
11. 11.III. AN OUTLINE OF THE PLOT — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.DRAMATIS PERSONAE — SCENE
13. 13.THE LITTLE CLAY CART
14. 14.PROLOGUE — Benediction upon the audience — END OF THE PROLOGUE
15. 15.ACT THE FIRST — THE GEMS ARE LEFT BEHIND — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.ACT THE SECOND — THE SHAMPOOER [39] WHO GAMBLED — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.ACT THE THIRD — THE HOLE IN THE WALL — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.ACT THE FOURTH — MADANIKA AND SHARVILAKA — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.ACT THE FIFTH — THE STORM — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.ACT THE SIXTH — THE SWAPPING OF THE BULLOCK-CARTS — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.ACT THE SEVENTH — ARYAKA'S ESCAPE — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.ACT THE EIGHTH — THE STRANGLING OF VASANTASENA — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.ACT THE NINTH — THE TRIAL — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.ACT THE TENTH — THE END — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.EPILOGUE
26. 26.A LIST OF PASSAGES

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