Sudraka biography definition
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Shudraka
Indian king and playwright
Shudraka (IAST: Śūdraka) was an Indian playwright, to whom three Sanskrit plays are attributed: Mrichchhakatika (The Little Clay Cart), Vinavasavadatta, and a bhana (short one-act monologue), Padmaprabhritaka.[2] According to the prologue of Mrichchhakatika, he was a king; according to one theory, he may have been a third century Abhira king. According to another theory, Shudraka is a mythical figure, and the authorship of plays attributed to him is uncertain. Col. Wilfred has identified him with Simuka, the founder of Satavahana dynasty and placed him in 200 B.C.[4]
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[edit]In the prologue of the play Mrichchhakatika, the stage manager states that its poet was a wise king renowned as "Shudraka". He had performed Ashvamedha ritual to prove his superiority, and immolated himself aged 110 years, after crowning his son as the new king. The prologue describes him as a distinguished wise man, who had gained knowledge of the Rigveda, the Samaveda, mathematics, the Kamashastra and the art of training elephants.
Two lost works titled Shudraka-katha (IAST: Śūdraka-kathā, "the story of Shudraka") are known from other sources. A verse attributed to the 10th century poet Rajashekhara in Suktimukt
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7 Sudraka: Mrichhakatika
Mr. Surajit Maity
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Sudraka
Sudraka was an Indian king and playwright.[1] Three Sanskrit plays are ascribed to him - Mricchakatika (The Little Clay Cart), Vinavasavadatta, and a bhana (short one-act monologue), Padmaprabhritaka.[1][2] Sudraka has been identified as the pen name of an Abhira king from the third century CE, either Indranigupta,[3] or Shivadatta, father of Ishwarsena.[4] According to Sten Konow, Sudraka belonged to the 3rd century A.D. He established his kingdom in Pratisthana.[5]
Sudraka was the first Abhira king of the Andhras (Satavahanas). This monarch, commonly known to history as '''Simuka''', probably established his independence soon after the death of the great Buddhist emperor Ashoka in 232 B.C.[6]
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[change | change source]- ↑ 1.01.1Banerjee, Biswanath (1999). Shudraka. Makers of Indian Literature. New Delh, India: Sahitya Academy. p. 4. ISBN .
- ↑Bhattacharji, Sukumari History of Classical Sanskrit Literature, Sangam Books, London, 1993, ISBN 0-86311-242-0, p.93
- ↑Warder, Anthony Kennedy (1990). "Chapter XX: Drama in the +3 ; Śūdraka; Contemporary Lyric Poetry". Indian Kāvya Literature, Volume 3 (second ed.). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 3.