It is often assumed that Classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic.
Loo.
In the first study of tragedy in Classical Sanskrit literature, Sarkar draws on a wide range of Sanskrit dramas, poems and treatises - much of them translated for the first time into English - to provide a complete history of the tragic in Indian literature from the second to the fourth centuries.
However, as Bihani Sarkar makes clear in this book, this is far from the case.
It is often assumed that Classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic