Socio Cultural Aspects of the Society as Depicted in the Ubhayābhisārikā

Sanskrit literature abounds with a lot of literary works dealing with the divinity, myths, beliefs, customs and royalty. Considering the Ramayana and the Mahabharata as a source, the most popular works have been composed in Sanskrit literature. Kalidasa, Bhavabhuti, Bhasa are the great poets of all times because of their artistic articulation and outstanding innovative adjoins of themes based on the great books. Apart from these works, poets like Sudraka, Da in, K emendra receive acclaim for their courage to depict the lives of the common people of society. Unfortunately, the amount of these kinds of works in Sanskrit can be counted on the fingers. Comparison to other forms of rupaka, bha ahas possessed the specialty that its theme can depict the experiences of the lower section of society. In Sanskrit literature, there are sources to know the royalty, but inadequate sources to know the lives of common people. The litterateurs portrayed the society of their time through their works that had been experienced by them through different means. Bha a is that kind of literary form where the society had been reflected through a variety of characters embracing a large sphere of society. The characters had been created by the writers through whom the socio cultural aspects of life had been depicted and narrated. In the long run, the bha akind of rupaka gradually lost its grip perhaps due to the monotonous content and some other reasons. As because the numbers and volumes of the narratives are very small to understand the various aspects of the life of the people of ancient society, the proper study of thebha as may give an idea of the life and social structure of that society. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the socio cultural aspects of the society exhibited in the Ubhayabhicarika. Mridusmita Bharadwaj "Socio-Cultural Aspects of the Society as Depicted in the Ubhayābhisārikā" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-1 , December 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd47960.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/sanskrit/47960/sociocultural-aspects-of-the-society-as-depicted-in-the-ubhayābhisārikā/mridusmita-bharadwaj