Vasantasena
Vasantasena is a fictional character and the protagonist of the iconic Sanskrit play Mṛichchhakatika (The Little Clay Cart) written by Śūdraka.[1]
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Mricchakatika was translated in 1826 as The Toy Cart by Horace Hayman Wilson, a surgeon in the East India Company. In 1847, the text was translated by the German scholar A.F Stenzler, and published in Bonn. [2]
The play was subsequently adapted and performed widely across Europe.[3] Many of the adaptions were titled 'Vasantasena' after the main character.