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  • In Bhāsa

    His best work, Svapnavāsavadattā (“The Dream of Vāsavadattā”), depicts a king losing and then regaining his kingdom from a usurper. The majority of his dramas are ingenious adaptations on themes of heroism and romantic love borrowed from India’s two great epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata. Bhāsa deviated…

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