Preface Dramatic System Of The Hindus Mrichchakati

Author : Horace Hayman Wilson
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458971197
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus written by Horace Hayman Wilson and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1835. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE MRICHCHAKATI, OS THE TOY CART, SI Drama, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SANSCRIT. E PRELIMINARY NOTE. The uncertainty of the sounds to be given to the proper names that occur in the following pages will necessarily impair any satisfaction that their perusal may possibly afford. This difficulty may however be readily overcome by attention to a few simple rules. The only letters to which any regard need be paid are the vowels a, e, i, and u. A, i, and u, are distinguished as long or as short by an accent over the long vowel, as a, d; i, i; u, ii. E, i, and u, whether long or short, are to be pronounced as in Italian, and so is the long or accented d. The unaccented a has the sound of that letter in adore, adorn, America, or of u in sun. This is the most perplexing part of the system, but it rests on grounds that need not be detailed here. If written as pronounced, the names of the hero and heroine should be Charooduttu and Vusuntusend, instead of Chdrudatta, Vasantasend. The following recapitulation will afford a ready reference: a short or unaccented, as u in sun; d long or accented, as a in far; e accented or not, as a in care; i short or unaccented, as t in kill; i long or accented, as ee in keel; u short or unaccented, as u in full; it long or accented, as oo in fooL It is also necessary to observe, that the syllable ka at the end of a proper name is an optional addition; thut Chan dona and Chandanaka, A'rya and A'ryaka are the same. INTRODUCTION. The drama of which the translation is now published is a work of great interest, both in the literary and national history of the Hindus. Although not named by the authority from which we have principally drawn our general view of the Hindu dramatic system, the Dasa Rupaka, it is unquestionably alluded to in the...