TY - BOOK ID - 7134351 TI - Much ado about religion AU - Jayanta Bhaṭṭa, v. 850-910 AU - Dezso, Csaba PY - 2005 SN - 0814719791 9780814719794 PB - New York: New York University press, DB - UniCat KW - Religion and politics KW - Nyaya KW - Religion and politics - India - Drama KW - Nyaya - Drama UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7134351 AB - The play satirizes various religions in Kashmir and their place in the politics of King Shánkara·varman (883-902). Jayánta’s strategy is to take a characteristic figure of the target religion and show that he is a rogue, using reasoning or some fundamental ideas connected with the doctrines of that very religion. This way he makes a laughingstock of both its followers and their tenets. The leading character, Sankárshana, is a young and dynamic orthodox graduate of Vedic studies, whose career starts as a glorious campaign against the heretic Buddhists, Jains and other antisocial sects. By the end of the play he realizes that the interests of the monarch do not encourage such inquisitional rigor and the story ends in a great festival of tolerance and compromise. ER -