The World of Courtesans c10.44

Language: English

c10.44

The authorship of the *Padmaprabhritakam* is ascribed to Shudraka and hardly anything more is said about him. But there are reasons which lead one to believe that this is the same Shudraka who wrote the *Mrichchhakatika*. The subject of the *Padmaprabhritakam* is the love of Muladeva, the famous rue of the literature of the Gupta period, and of Devasena, a celebrated courtesan of Pataliputra.

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Mṛcchakaṭika — Śūdraka, Sanskrit
Padmaprābhṛtaka — Śūdraka, Sanskrit