HASYARNAVA.

This comic play is a severe but grossly indelicate satire upon the

profligacy of Brahmans assuming the character of religious mendicants.

It satirizes also the encouragement given to vice by princes, the

inefficacy of ministers, and the ignorance of physicians and

astrologers.

It is the work of a Pandit named Jagaddisa, and was represented at the

vernal festival; but where, or when, it is not known.

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