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Mr.M. C. Satakopa Chariar, Retired Sanskrit Pandit, West Chitra Street, Srirangam:-
Srimathi V. M. Godhanayaki has indeed done an inestimable and immense service to our Tamil-knowing populace by her recent publication of a remarkable drama- tic booklet called "INDRAMOHANA" in Tamil. Its style and diction and choice of expressions are simple and attractive. The plot of the Drama bears close resemblance to those of our famous Sanskrit Dramas such as "Malatimadhava ", " Mallikamaruta ", " Mricchakatika ",
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some others, while to a certain extent it resembles also that of some of Shakespear's Dramas. There is a close resemblance between the hero and the heroine and other minor characters in this Drama and the heroes and heroines and other minor characters in many of our famous Sanskrit Dramas such as "Malatimadhava" "Mallikamaruta ", "Mricchakatika" and others. Chanakya in this Drama bears a close resemblance to Sakara in "Mricchakatika" in as much as both of the above are represented as a strange mixture of pride, folly and vanity, and they both exhibit lightness of frivolity of spirit, vain glory, constant references to their high connections and in their voluptuous, in- coherent, vulgar and nonsensical expressions of words and in cruelty even to destroy the heroines when they refuse to accept them as their husbands.
