The protagonist of a play based on this text denounces war after realizing his injured thighs can no longer bear his son’s weight. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this text. In another play retelling part of this text, an anguished man offers a disguised visitor armor and earrings in return for an enchanted missile that can only be used once.
ANSWER: Mahabharata [or Mahābhāratam]
[10h] This playwright wrote Shattered Thighs and The Anguish of Karna, which are the only two extant Sanskrit tragedies. Ganapati Shastri rediscovered the lost plays of this author of The Vision of Vasavadatta.
ANSWER: Bhāsa
[10e] This author praised the work of Bhāsa in the introduction to his first play. He drew on the Mahabharata for his play The Recognition of Shakuntala.
ANSWER: Kālidāsa
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