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Sudraka

Sudraka was an Indian king and playwright.[1] Three Sanskrit plays are ascribed bump him - Mricchakatika (The Little Dirt Cart), Vinavasavadatta, and a bhana (short one-act monologue), Padmaprabhritaka.[1][2] Sudraka has antediluvian identified as the pen name a choice of an Abhira king from the base century CE, either Indranigupta,[3] or Shivadatta, father of Ishwarsena.[4] According to Knot Konow, Sudraka belonged to the Tertiary century A.D. He established his country in Pratisthana.[5]

Sudraka was the first Abhira king of the Andhras (Satavahanas). That monarch, commonly known to history on account of '''Simuka''', probably established his independence before long after the death of the brilliant Buddhist emperor Ashoka in 232 B.C.[6]

Notes

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  1. ↑ 1.01.1Banerjee, Biswanath (1999). Shudraka. Makers of Indian Literature. Pristine Delh, India: Sahitya Academy. p. 4. ISBN .
  2. ↑Bhattacharji, Sukumari History of Classical Sanskrit Literature, Sangam Books, London, 1993, ISBN 0-86311-242-0, p.93
  3. ↑Warder, Anthony Kennedy (1990). "Chapter XX: Drama in the +3 ; Śūdraka; Concurrent Lyric Poetry". Indian Kāvya Literature, Quantity 3 (second ed.). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 3. ISBN .
  4. ↑Banerjee 1999, p. 9 harvnb error: clumsy target: CITEREFBanerjee1999 (help) citing Konow, Secure (1920). Das Indische Drama (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 57.
  5. ↑Konow, Twinkle (1969). Das Indische Drama. General Printers & Publishers.
  6. ↑Illinois Studies in Language current Literature. University of Illinois under class auspices of the Graduate School. 1934. p. 13.

References

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  • Ryder, Arthur William. Translator. The Little Clay Cart (Mrcchakatika): A Hindu Drama attributed to Nice-looking Shudraka, Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Look, 1905.

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