Dutta. Tales from the Hindu Dramatists

Today's free book is Tales from the Hindu Dramatists by R. N. Dutta. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image. These are brief prose synopses of some of the most famous plays of India, and you can get an overview at Wikipedia: Sanskrit Drama.

The book is available at Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive and Hathi Trust. You can get a free Kindle ebook from Amazon too! The links below are to the Project Gutenberg edition of the book.

(Shakuntala)

PREFACE.

1. SAKUNTALA OR THE LOST RING.
2. VIKRAMORVASI or URVASI WON BY VALOUR or THE HERO AND THE NYMPH
3. MALAVIKAGNIMITRA or AGNIMITRA AND MALAVIKA
4. THE VIRA CHARITA or THE MAHAVIRA CHARITA or THE LIFE OF THE GREAT HERO
5. UTTAR RAMA CHARITA or THE LATER LIFE OF RAMA
6. MALATI AND MADHAVA or THE STOLEN MARRIAGE.
7. HANUMAN NATAKA, OR MAHANATAKA, OR THE GREAT DRAMA.
8. ANERGHA RAGHAVA or MURARI NATAKA.
9. VENI SAMVARANA or VENI SANHARA or THE BINDING OF THE BRAID OF HAIR
10. CHANDA KAUSIKA or THE OFFENDED VISHVAMITRA
11. MADHURANIRUDDHA.
12. SRIDAMA CHARITA.
13. KANSA BADHA or THE DESTRUCTION OF KANSA
14. YAYATI CHARITRA.
15. KAUTUKA SERVASWA.
16. PRACHANDA PANDAVA or THE OFFENDED SONS OF PANDU
17. PROBODHA CHANDRODAYA or THE RISE OF THE MOON OF KNOWLEDGE
18. NAGANANDA or THE JOY OF SERPENTS
19. DUTANGADA or THE MISSION OF ANGADA
20. PRADYUMNA VIJAYA.
21. VIDAGDHA MADHAVA.
22. DHANANYAYA VIJAYA.
23. HASYARNAVA.
24. CHITRA YAJNA.
25. MRIGANKALEKHA.
26. MUDRARAKSHASA or THE MINISTER WITH THE SIGNET RING
27. VIDDHA SALABHANJIKA or THE CARVED STATUE
28. RATNAVALI or THE NECKLACE.

APPENDIX.