Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c13.s5.t1.14

c13.s5.t1.14

Then other dramas known as mahuyarīgiya and soyāmani are mentioned 95 The Pinda niryukti refers to the ratthavāla drama which was staged in Pātaliputra by the monk Āsādhabhūi It depicted the life of Bhārata, the universal monarch, and it is stated that after seeing this drama a large number of kings and princes retired from the worldly life and joined the ascetic order Later on, thinking that the drama might do great harm to the world and the earth may be devoid of the Ksatryas, it was destroyed.⁹⁶