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The drama [ratnaketudaya] is unfit for staging in the local theatre. The prologue is unnecessarily overdrawn and the major part of the first act is taken up with the king's description of the princess and his narration of the meeting with her in the Chitra mandapa. Consequently, there is very little action in the first act. The second act deals with the description of the pangs of love undergone by the princess and Prabhavati's meeting with her. Hardly any action of dramatic interest takes place. The first half of the third act is full of the descriptions of love pangs of the hero. But in the second half, there are some elements of dramatic value viz. the arrival of the Vidyadhara and his fight with the hero. The dramatist makes the anchorite Prabhavati enter the stage and through her, the battle is described. The fourth act is very monotonous. It consists of a tedious description of Prabhavati's aerial journey from Manipura to Hemapura followed by a repeated account of the hero's pangs of love. The scene of the king suffering from the pangs of love is only a reduplication of a similar scene in the third act in which the princess is likewise undergoing pangs of love.

508 568 The fifth act contains a long scene in which the hero and the heroine are together enjoying the night. The re is hardly any significant action in this act. The monotony of post-marital meeting of the hero and heroine is broken by the entry of Prabhavati who blesses the couple in the usual way. Thus it can be seen that the play will not be a success on the stage.