As a form of entertainment drama has always stood at the And it is this that our author has adopted for entertaining his readers and spectators. As for the Sanskrit medium, he seems to have been actuated to go in for it to reach the widest corners of the country. Sanskrit is one medium which is practiced in common by different linguistic groups many of who may not be familiar with any medium other than this? outside their own.
Sanskrit drama has a hoary past. Continuing its onward march from very early times it has reached up to the present day. One of the richest, if not the richest in the world, it has given birth to some of the masterpieces. It has enclosed in its bosom many a theme, many a style and many a form. The present play is one of the latest of the links in its ever increasing chain.
The playwright has not depended for his theme on his own recollection of the events as they unfolded themselves in the rise of a new nation or some reports here and there. He painstakingly familiarized himself with them by carefully going through the old records and documents of the contemporary period as also by personal interviews with some of the prominent personalities directly involved in the historic event. The result: His work has become an important historical narrative the kinds of which here may be few and far between in the entire range of Sanskrit treasure.
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