note 12: As in Malati-madhava.]

[Footnote 13: Dacarupa, iii. 33.]

[Footnote 14: In Kalidasa's Shakuntala.]

[Footnote 15: In Bhavabhuti's Latter Acts of Rama.]

[Footnote 16: See page 128.]

[Footnote 17: Aryaka, Darduraka, Chandanaka, Sharvilaka, and the courtier.]

[Footnote 18: See x. 27.]

[Footnote 19: See v. 46 and the following stage-direction.]

[Footnote 20: In Kalidasa's play of that name.]

[Footnote 21: In Bhavabhuti's Latter Acts of Rama.]

[Footnote 22: See viii. 43.]

[Footnote 23: See pages 65-66 and page 174.]

[Footnote 24: See viii. 38 and compare the words, "Yet love bids me
prattle," on page 86.]

[Footnote 25: Page 87.]

[Footnote 26: Stanzas of the latter sort in The Little Clay Cart are
vii. 2 and viii. 5.]

[Footnote 27: This statement requires a slight limitation; compare, for
example, the footnote to page 82.]

[Footnote 28: But the combination _th_ should be pronounced as in
_ant-hill_, not as in _thin_ or _this_; similarly _dh_ as in
_mad-house_; _bh_ as in _abhor._]

[Footnote 29: Except in the names Aryaka and Ahinta, where typographical
considerations have led to the omission of the macron over the initial
letter; and except also in head-lines.]

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

CHARUDATTA, _a Brahman merchant_

ROHASENA, _his son_

MAITREYA, _his friend_

VARDHAMANAKA, _a servant in his house_

SANSTHANAKA, _brother-in-law of King_ PALAKA

STHAVARAKA, _his servant_

_Another Servant of_ SANSTHANAKA

_A Courtier_

ARYAKA, _a herdsman who becomes king_

SHARVILAKA, _a Brahman, in love with_ MADANIKA

_A Shampooer, who becomes a Buddhist monk_

MATHURA, _a gambling-master_

DARDURAKA, _a gambler_

_Another Gambler_

KARNAPURAKA }
KUMBHILAKA } _servants of_ VASANTASENA

VIRAKA }
CHANDANAKA } _policemen_

GOHA }
AHINTA } _headsmen_

_Bastard pages, in_ VASANTASENA'S _house_

_A Judge_, _a Gild-warden_, _a Clerk_, _and a Beadle_

VASANTASENA, _a courtezan_

_Her Mother_

MADANIKA, _maid to_ VASANTASENA

_Another Maid to_ VASANTASENA

_The Wife of_ CHARUDATTA

RADANIKA, _a maid in_ CHARUDATTA'S _house_

SCENE

UJJAYINI (_called also_ AVANTI) _and its Environs_

THE LITTLE CLAY CART

PROLOGUE

_Benediction upon the audience_

His bended knees the knotted girdle holds,
Fashioned by doubling of a serpent's folds;
His sensive organs, so he checks his breath,
Are n