Note 16 — XI THE DECLINE OF THE SANSKRIT DRAMA

Of dramas with lesser personages of the saga as heroes we have the Bhairavānanda16 of the Nepalese poet Maṇika from the end of the fourteenth century, and at least a century later the Bhartṛharinirveda17 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.