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قراءة كتاب The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika
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The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika
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HARVARD ORIENTAL SERIES
EDITED
WITH THE COÖPERATION OF VARIOUS SCHOLARS
BY
CHARLES ROCKWELL LANMAN
WALES PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Volume Nine
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Published by Harvard University
1905
THE LITTLE CLAY CART
[MṚCCHAKAṬIKA]
A Hindu Drama
ATTRIBUTED TO KING SHŪDRAKA
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SANSKRIT AND PRĀKRITS
INTO ENGLISH PROSE AND VERSE
BY
ARTHUR WILLIAM RYDER, Ph.D.
INSTRUCTOR IN SANSKRIT IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
Published by Harvard University
1905
COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY
TO MY FATHER
WILLIAM HENRY RYDER
CONTENTS
NOTE BY THE EDITOR OF THE SERIES | ix | |
PREFACE BY THE TRANSLATOR | xi | |
INTRODUCTION | ||
THE AUTHOR AND THE PLAY | xv | |
THE TRANSLATION | xxiii | |
AN OUTLINE OF THE PLOT | xxvi | |
DRAMATIS PERSONAE | xxx | |
TRANSLATION OF THE LITTLE CLAY CART | ||
PROLOGUE | 1 | |
ACT I. | THE GEMS ARE LEFT BEHIND | 6 |
ACT II. | THE SHAMPOOER WHO GAMBLED | 27 |
ACT III. | THE HOLE IN THE WALL | 43 |
ACT IV. | MADANIKĀ AND SHARVILAKA | 57 |
ACT V. | THE STORM | 75 |
ACT VI. | THE SWAPPING OF THE BULLOCK-CARTS | 93 |
ACT VII. | ARYAKA'S ESCAPE | 105 |
ACT VIII. | THE STRANGLING OF VASANTASENĀ | 109 |
ACT IX. | THE TRIAL |