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Title The Little Clay Cart, [Mṛcchakaṭika]
Author Śūdraka
Translator Arthur William Ryder
Year 1905
Publisher Harvard University
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Source djvu
Progress Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion Fully transcluded

CONTENTS


NOTE BY THE EDITOR OF THE SERIES ix
PREFACE BY THE TRANSLATOR xi
INTRODUCTION
THE AUTHOR AND THE PLAY xv
THE TRANSLATION xxiii
AN OUTLINE OF THE PLOT xxvi
DRAMATIS PERSONAE xxx
TRANSLATION OF THE LITTLE CLAY CART
PROLOGUE 1
ACT I. THE GEMS ARE LEFT BEHIND 6
ACT II. THE SHAMPOOER WHO GAMBLED 27
ACT III. THE HOLE IN THE WALL 43
ACT IV. MADANIKĀ AND SHARVILAKA 57
ACT V. THE STORM 75
ACT VI. THE SWAPPING OF THE BULLOCK-CARTS 93
ACT VII. ARYAKA'S ESCAPE 105
ACT VIII. THE STRANGLING OF VASANTASENĀ 109
ACT IX. THE TRIAL 132
ACT X. THE END 153
EPILOGUE 176
DEPARTURES OF THE TRANSLATION FROM PARAB'S TEXT 177