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Excerpt from A Complete Text: With Exhaustive, Critical Grammatical and Explanatory Notes, Complete Translation,& a Masterly Introduction
The present drama, technically called Nataka, consists of seven acts. The play. Rather than portraying life or character, the drama, more or less, tells a semi-historical story by means of actions and dialogues. The drama is not prominently intended to teach any particular moral lesson or truth. The play is entirely a political play; and in a way, social, religious and moral notions and problems are all made subordinate to the political ends to be achieved. Hence if at all the poet intends to teach any lesson, it is for the politicians and not for ordinary persons. The lesson in short, would be that a politician should ever be true to his cause and in order to get success he may ignore social, religious and ethical rules taking care to see that the innocent do in no way suffer.
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