A History of Sanskrit Literature c16.74

c16.74

A large number of Sanskrit plays have been written since the twelfth century¹ down to modern times, their plots being generally derived from the *Mahābhārata* and the *Rāmāyaṇa*. Besides these, there are farces in one or more acts, mostly of a coarse type, in which various vices, such as hypocrisy, are satirised. These later productions reach a much lower level of art than the works of the early Indian dramatists.