Volume : 2, Issue : 3, March - 2013

A Story of Yayati in Mahabharta by Ved Vyasa and Yayati, a play by Girish Karnad: A Comparative Study

Dr. K. M. Trivedi

Abstract :

Modern Indian English dramas now a day are popular among readers. Indian English playwrights are very comfortable in presenting new look and ideas regenerating the old stories. The present paper deals with the play Yayati by Girish Karnad, the origin of this play is found as a form of story in Adiparva of Mahabharata by Ved Vyasa. The researcher has probed into ancient and modern introspections of Yayati in the light of comparative ground and has explored the antithesis from myth to modernity in these two works