and the Virtues, have been sent into exile. In accordance with a prophecy, Reason will at some time marry Revelation, and the fruit of that union will be True Knowledge, who will overthrow the power of King Error. The plot recounts the vicissitudes of the struggle and the final triumph of good.
The Saṃkalpasūryodaya of Veṅkaṭanātha and the Caitanyacandrodaya of Kavikarṇapūra who wrote about the middle of the sixteenth century are obvious imitations of the Prabodhacandrodaya and have as dramatis personae almost the same characters.
Of the later history of the Sanskrit drama it is not necessary to write at length. It has had a continuous existence from the Later Plays. period of the greatest works down to the present time.[1] The later plays, although written in exact accordance with the rules of Hindu dramaturgy, are for the most part lacking in interest and action.
- ↑ Wilson in 1827 gave the names of 60 Sanskrit plays, Lévi in 1890 was able to increase the number of titles known to 372, and the present bibliography lists over 500 separate productions.
