The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c17.s2.22

c17.s2.22

Of dramas with lesser personages of the saga as heroes we have the *Bhairavānanda*¹ of the Nepalese poet Maṇika from the end of the fourteenth century, and at least a century later the *Bhar-trharinirveda*² of Harihara, which is interesting, as it shows the popularity of Bhartṛhari; he is represented as desolated by his wife's death, through despair on a false rumour of his own death, but, consoled by a Yogin, he attains indifference, so that, when his wife is recalled to life, neither she nor their child has any attraction for him.