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Sanskrit dramas by Kerala authors (Study)

by S. Subramania Iyer | 1971 | 172,221 words

This essay represents and English study of the Sanskrit dramas by Kerala authors. The influence that Sanskrit has exerted on the people of Kerala in their cultural, social and literary fields is of great significance to them. Their language and literature, religion and philosophy, art and architecture, all have their roots deep in Sanskrit. In this...

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The first act [of the kamalinikalahamsa] seems to begin in the morning. This is corroborated by Kumudini's description of the garden wherein she says that the flowers have just blossomed, the cuckoos are singing and that the bees are producing humming sound. It has its background in the garden of the Durga shrine. The act ends at mid-noon. is no break between the end of the first act and the beginning of the second act. It ends in There

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627 627 ing of the sun 19. the evening as evident from the hero's mention of the settThere is again no break between acts II and III. The third act begins in the night. The place of action is a garden. It seems to end late in the night. There is no interruption between acts III and IV. The fourth act starts in the last quarter of the night as could be known from Vijnanavati's words. candrajyotsavyatikarasitaksoniprstham triyamam 20 The place of action is a garden. The time at which the fourth act ends is not indicated. The fifth act begins The action takes place in a garden. in the night. act ends in the morning of the next day. which the sixth act begins is not known. action is a garden. The time at The The place of The plays ends at about mid-noon. Thus the play takes nearly three days for the course of its action

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