HARVARD ORIENTAL SERIES

EDITED

WITH THE COÖPERATION OF VARIOUS SCHOLARS

BY

CHARLES ROCKWELL LANMAN

WALES PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Volume Nine

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

Published by Harvard University

1905

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THE LITTLE CLAY CART

[MṚCCHAKAṬIKA]

A Hindu Drama

ATTRIBUTED TO KING SHŪDRAKA

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SANSKRIT AND PRĀKRITS

INTO ENGLISH PROSE AND VERSE

BY

ARTHUR WILLIAM RYDER, PHḌ.

INSTRUCTOR IN SANSKRIT IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

Published by Harvard University

[1905]

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, December 2007 by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923. These files may be used for any purpose.

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COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY

PRINTED BY D. B. UPDIKE AT THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

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TO MY FATHER

WILLIAM HENRY RYDER