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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, India's most well-known poet and litterateur and arguably the finest Bengali poet ever, reshaped Bengali literature and music. He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.Gulzar, an acclaimed film-maker, lyricist and author, he is the recipient of a number of Filmfare and National Awards, the Oscar for Best Lyricist and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
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Chitra - Rabindranath Tagore
CHITRA, A PLAY IN ONE ACT BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE
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Works of Rabindanath Tagore available from Seltzer Books:
Chitra, a Play in Play in One Act
Creative Unity
The Fugitive
Glimpses of Bengal
The Home and the World
The Hungry Stones and Other Stories
The King of the Dark Chamber
Mashi and Other Stories
Sadhana the Realisation of Life
Stories from Tagore
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1926
All rights reserved
Copyright 1914
by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped Published February, 1914
Reprinted March, twice,June, 1914; October, 1914; February, June, 1915; March, October, 1916; March, 1917; December, 1926.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY
THE BERWICK & SMITH CO.
TO MRS. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY
PREFACE
THE CHARACTERS
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV
SCENE V
SCENE VII
SCENE VIII
SCENE IX
PREFACE
THIS lyrical drama was written about twenty-five years ago. It is based on the following story from the Mahabharata.
In the course of his wanderings, in fulfilment of a vow of penance, Arjuna came to Manipur. There he saw Chitrangada, the beautiful daughter of Chitravahana, the king of the country. Smitten with her charms, he asked the king for the hand of his daughter in marriage. Chitravahana asked him who he was, and learning that he was Arjuna the Pandara, told him that Prabhanjana, one of his ancestors in the kingly line of Manipur, had long been childless. In order to obtain an heir, he performed severe penances. Pleased with these austerities, the god Shiva gave him this boon, that he and his successors should each have one child. It so happened that the promised child had invariably been a son. He, Chitravahana, was the first to have only a daughter Chitrangada to perpetuate the race. He had, therefore, always treated