The Wedding of Arjuna and Subhadra The Kutiyattam Drama Subhadra -Dhananjaya

by N.P. Unni and Bruce M. Sullivan

This volume includes the first English translation of the Kutiyattam drama "Subhadra-Dhananjaya", a Sanskrit drama composed some 900 years ago by King Kulasekhara Varman. Also included are the Sanskrit text of the drama, and a Sanskrit commentary on it, as well as essays by Drs. Unni and Sullivan about this drama and Kutiyattam, a performance tradition sacred to Hindu temples as devotional offerings to the deity. This translation and study has been done in the hope that others will become interested in this tradition.

About the Author:

DR. N.P. UNNI is the Vice-Chancellor of the prestigious Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala. He has written/ edited/ commented/ published/ more than 25 books in the different fields of study like classical literature, Dramas, and Tantra, Arthasastra, Kerala history, Dramaturgy, Commentatorial literature, Literary criticism etc., etc. His magnun opus is an English translation with text and notes of the Natyasastra of Bharata.BRUCE M. SULLIVAN is Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies at Northern Arizonal University in Flagstaff Arizona (U.S.A.)