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Malavikagnimitram (Devnagari:??????????????????)("Malavika and Agnimitra") is a Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
 play by Kalidasa
Kalidasa

Kalidasa was a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language. His floruit cannot be dated with precision, but most likely falls within the Gupta Empire, probably in the 4th century BC or 5th century or 6th century....
. It is his first play. The principal characters of Malavikagnimitram are Malavika and Agnimitra.

The play tells the story of the love of King Agnimitra
Agnimitra

Agnimitra was the second King of the Sunga Dynasty of Northern India. He succeeded his father, Pusyamitra Sunga, in 149 BCE. According to Kalidasa in the Malavikagnimitram , Agnimitra belonged to the Baimbika family ....
, the Shunga
Sunga Empire

The Shunga Empire or Sunga Empire is a Magadha dynasty that controlled North-central and Eastern India as well as parts of the northwest from around 185 BCE to 73 BCE....
 king of Vidisha
Vidisha

Vidisha or Besnagar or old name Bhelsa is a city in the central Indian States and territories of India Madhya Pradesh, near its capital Bhopal....
 , for the beautiful hand-maiden of his chief queen. He falls in love with the picture of an exiled servant girl named Malavika.






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Malavikagnimitram (Devnagari:??????????????????)("Malavika and Agnimitra") is a Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
 play by Kalidasa
Kalidasa

Kalidasa was a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language. His floruit cannot be dated with precision, but most likely falls within the Gupta Empire, probably in the 4th century BC or 5th century or 6th century....
. It is his first play. The principal characters of Malavikagnimitram are Malavika and Agnimitra.

The play tells the story of the love of King Agnimitra
Agnimitra

Agnimitra was the second King of the Sunga Dynasty of Northern India. He succeeded his father, Pusyamitra Sunga, in 149 BCE. According to Kalidasa in the Malavikagnimitram , Agnimitra belonged to the Baimbika family ....
, the Shunga
Sunga Empire

The Shunga Empire or Sunga Empire is a Magadha dynasty that controlled North-central and Eastern India as well as parts of the northwest from around 185 BCE to 73 BCE....
 king of Vidisha
Vidisha

Vidisha or Besnagar or old name Bhelsa is a city in the central Indian States and territories of India Madhya Pradesh, near its capital Bhopal....
 , for the beautiful hand-maiden of his chief queen. He falls in love with the picture of an exiled servant girl named Malavika. When the queen discovers her husband's passion for this girl, she becomes infuriated and has Malavika imprisoned, but as fate would have it, in the end she is discovered to be of royal birth and is accepted as one of his queens.

The play contains an account of the Rajasuya
Rajasuya

Rajasuya was a sacrifice, described in detail in the Mahabharata, performed by the epic india of India who considered themselves powerful enough to be an emperor....
 sacrifice performed by Pushyamitra, and an elaborate exposition of a theory on music and acting.

See also

  • Sanskrit literature
    Sanskrit literature

    Indian literature in Sanskrit begins with the Vedas, and continues with the Sanskrit Epics of Iron Age India; the golden age of Classical Sanskrit literature dates to late Antiquity ....
  • Sanskrit drama
    Sanskrit drama

    Theatre in India as a distinct genre of Sanskrit literature emerges in the final centuries BC, although its origins date back to the Rigvedic dialogue hymns....