Question
NYU Press published Jayanta Bhaṭṭa’s satire Much Ado About Religion in a set of Sanskrit texts with this name inspired by the Loeb Classical Library. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this title material of a Sanskrit play by Shūdraka in which the courtesan Vasantasenā fills a toy made of it with jewels to delight the son of the poor brahmin Chārudatta.
ANSWER: clay [accept The Little Clay Cart or Mṛcchakaṭikā or variants; accept Clay Sanskrit Library; accept John P. Clay; prompt on ceramics]
[10h] The Clay Library bundled Harsha’s Nāgānanda with The Shattered Thigh by this pre-1st-century author, who originated The Little Clay Cart’s stock couple. K. M. Panikkar revived this author’s fast-paced play The Middle One.
ANSWER: Bhāsa
[10e] In Bhāsa’s play, Chārudatta and Vasantasenā meet at a festival of this god, a scene transposed to his temple in The Little Clay Cart. This god titles an erotic treatise by Vātsyāyana.
ANSWER: Kāma [or Kāmadeva, Madana, Manmatha, or Ananga; accept Kāma sūtra] (Bhāsa’s play is titled Chārudatta.)
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