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Mudrarakshasa
Sign in to saveThe Mudrārākshasa (मुद्राराक्षस, IAST: Mudrārākṣasa, ) is a Sanskrit-language play by Vishakhadatta that narrates the ascent of the Emperor Chandragupta Maurya ( BCE) to power in India. The play is an example of creative writing, but not entirely fictional. It is dated variously from the late 4th century to the 8th century CE.
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- Play.name
- Mudrārākṣasa
- Play.writer
- Vishakhadatta
- Play.setting
- Pataliputra, 3rd century BCE
- Play.orig_lang
- Sanskrit
- Play.genre
- Indian classical drama
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- literary work
- Author
- Vishakhadatta
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- मुद्राराक्षसम्
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- Sanskrit
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- Mudrarakshasa
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The Mudrārākshasa (मुद्राराक्षस, IAST: Mudrārākṣasa, ) is a Sanskrit-language play by Vishakhadatta that narrates the ascent of the Emperor Chandragupta Maurya ( BCE) to power in India. The play is an example of creative writing, but not entirely fictional. It is dated variously from the late 4th century to the 8th century CE.
==Characters== Chandragupta Maurya, one of the protagonists Chanakya, one of the protagonists Rakshasa, the main antagonist Malayketu, the son of Parvataka and one of the henchmen Parvataka, a greedy king who firstly supported Chandragupta but later changed his preference to Dhana Nanda Vairodhak Durdhara, wife of Chandragupta Maurya Bhadraketu Chandandasa Jeevsidhhi
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