Purpose of the study

The drama has always been critically appreciated by literary technicians or rhetoricians. The dramatist has chosen the most crucial portion of Mahābhārata, The Kurukṣetra was along with its precursors and successive events. As it is known to all that Kurukṣetra war was being fought in between kiths and kins all the closests of relations were messed in those eventualities. When relations suffer or fail women happen to be worsely affected. These very things are very well-executed in the drama and that appeal to an inquisitive reader. Again, the drama also has delineated very compatible relations of two pairs of spouse, one that is of Bhīmasena and Draupadī and the other pair is of Duryodhaṇa and Bhānumatī. It may again be mentioned that Bhaṭṭanārāyaṇa’s Veṇīsaṃhāra is the only Sanskrit work where the character of Bhānumatī is portrayed with so much of attention and care. Even the concern of Bhīmasena to Draupadī is though a theme of Mahābhārata is very wel-portrayed in the drama. In this drama the female characters exhibit a commendable effort to smoothen the war-torn hearts of dear ones, be it Gandhari, Draupadī or Subhadrā. The drama is also appealing on the ground that the author has been very successful in creating pathos in the fourth Act and brilliant heroic sentiments in the earlier Acts. The technicalities, sociological aspects, character delineations and deviations from the original story make the drama an interesting subject of style. The paucity of substantial research works on this work also makes it a major point of attraction.Hence the present study is being carried out on Veṇīsaṃhāra.