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" Parakiya, or she who is the wife of another person, is never to be made the object of a dramatic intrigue ; a prohibition that would have sadly cooled the imagination and curbed the wit of Dryden and Congreve. "
Mahākaviśrīkālidāsaviracitaṃ Vikramorvaśiyam - Page 5
by Kālidāsa - 1898 - 330 pages
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Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus, Volume 1

1835 - 494 pages
...needless to specify. We may observe, however, to the honour of the Hindu drama, that the Parakfyd, or she who is the wife of another person, is never to be made the object of a dramatic intrigue : a prohibition that would have sadly cooled the imagination, and curbed the wit...
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The Monthly Review

1835 - 618 pages
...rank in society." — vol. i, pp. xliv, xlv. According to the rules of the drama, the woman who was the wife of another person, is never to be made the object of an intrigue, a prohibition, as the translator says, that would have sadly coolocl the imagination,...
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A Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology, Philosophy ...

John Garrett - 1871 - 978 pages
...Plautus and Terence. It may be observed, however, to the honour of the Hindu drama, that the Parakiyd, or she who is the wife of another person, is never to be made the object of a dramatic intrigue ; a prohibition that would have sadly cooled the imagination and curbed the wit...
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Supplement to a Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology ...

John Garrett - 1873 - 174 pages
...Plautus and Terence. It may be observed, however, to the honour of the Hindu drama, that the Parakiya, or she who is the wife of another person, is never to be made the object of a dramatic intrigue ; a prohibition that would have sadly cooled the imagination and curbed the wit...
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A classical dictionary of India illustrative of the mythology, philosophy ...

John Garrett (director of public instruction in Mysore.) - 1873 - 174 pages
...Plautus and Terence. It may be observed, however, to the honour of the Hindu drama, that the Parakiyd, or she who is the wife of another person, is never to be made the object of a dramatic intrigue ; a prohibition that would have sadly cooled the imagination and curbed the wit...
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Hindu Superiority: An Attempt to Determine the Position of the Hindu Race in ...

Har Bilas Sarda (Diwan Bahadur) - 1906 - 506 pages
...Professor Wilson savs : •I " We may, however, observe to the honour of the Hindu drama, that Parakiya, or she who is the wife of another person, is never to be made the object of a dramatic intrigue: a prohibition that would have sadly cooled the imagination and curbed the wit...
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