Author : Bhatta Jayanta
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814719791
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Book Synopsis Much Ado about Religion by : Bhatta Jayanta
Download or read book Much Ado about Religion written by Bhatta Jayanta and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play satirizes various religions in Kashmir and their place in the politics of King Shankara-varman (883-902 CE). Jayanta's strategy is to take a characteristic figure of the target religion and unmask him as a fraud. By turning his victim's own religious doctrines against him, Jayanta makes a laughingstock of both the philosophy and its adherents. The leading character, Sankarshana, is a young and dynamic orthodox graduate of Vedic studies, whose career starts as a glorious campaign against the heretic Buddhists, Jains and other antisocial sects. By the end of the play the realizes that the interests of the monarch do not encourage such inquisitional rigor, and the story ends in a great festival of tolerance and compromise.