About the Book: Ratnavali
Ratnavali is a famous Sanskrit drama composed in four Acts by Sri Harsha. The
play is a comedy of court life, centring round the light-hearted love-intrigue
of king Udayana with a lowly maiden of unknown descent, their secret meetings
through the help of a jester and the damsels friend, the jealousy of the queen
and her anger and resentment, and finally her acceptance of the situation when
the maiden is discovered to be her lost cousin. About the Author Harsha, an
eminent dramatist, was the king of Thaneshwar and Kanauj who reigned from 606 to
648 A.D. and to whose court the