Śāntākaragupta’s Play on the Legend of Prince Sudhana and the Kinnarī

What is it about?

A fragment of a play written on the Buddhist legend of prince Sudhana and the kinnarī has been micro lmed by the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. It was probably written at the end of the eleventh century in Bengal by a Buddhist scholar called Śāntākaragupta. e present article contains a critical edition and an English translation of the fragment, as well as an analysis of the intertextuality of the play and especially the literary in uences that shaped the author’s poetic diction.

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