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The title page calls the work The Lost Ring, an Indian drama, translated into English prose and verse from the Sanskrit. The preface to the eighth edition calls the work “India's most celebrated drama”, with a translation first published in 1855 that has gone through seven editions. The preface says the writer heard that Sir John Lubbock had thought the work worthy of a place among the hundred best books of the world.
A passage says the great Vikramáditya or Vikramárka succeeded in driving back the barbaric hordes beyond the Indus. The Chamberlain, named Vátáyana, says he feels very unwilling to announce to the King that a deputation of young hermits from the sage Kanwa has arrived and craves an immediate audience. A passage says something in honour of Krishna, and of his son Káma-deva, the god of love, is identified with the Holí or Dolá-yátra, the Saturnalia, or rather, Carnival of the Hindús.
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- Author
- Kālidāsa
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 213
- Language
- English
- Genre
- World Classics
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