and the devotion of Yougandharayana for his master Udayana. This shows how popular the story of Udayana was even in Ancient India. Kalidasa has referred to Udayana in his Meghaduta. Śudraka refers in his Mricchakatika to the devotion of minister Yaugandharayana to Udayana. Bhāsa has dramatized the story in his two plays Pratignayougandharayanam and Swapnavāsadattam. In conclusion, it can be said that it is not unlikely that Harsha took the frame-work of the Udayana story from either the Bauddha literature or some early version of the Brihatkatha and dramatized it in his own way. Although the story is not entirely invented, it must be admitted that the treatment of it at Harsha's hands is quite original and that the play on the whole is a very charming one. Adaptations The play has been adapted to film in Indian cinema as Ratnavali in 1922 by Jyotish Bannerjee and C. Legrand, in 1924 by Manilal Joshi, and in 1945 by Surendra Desai. See also List of Sanskrit plays in English translation Nagananda Priyadarsika References Ancient Indian literature Sanskrit texts 7th-century plays 7th-century Indian books Sanskrit plays Indian plays adapted into films Comedy plays Comedy theatre Indian satire Indian comedy Indian humour