LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 9 September 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Myth Revived in Hayavadana

K. Mangaiyarkarasi, M.A., M.Phil.

Use of Indian Mythology and Its Adaptation

Karnad’s adaptations of myths and legends in his plays are more an act of impulse rather than intention. Karnad himself says in his “Introduction” to Three Plays:

“The myth had enabled me to articulate to myself a set of values that I had been unable to arrive at rationally” (TP 11).

Though Karnad makes use of Indian mythology, he does not take them in their entirely. He takes them only in parts that are useful to him and the rest he supplements with his imagination. Thus the story in the main plot of Hayavadana, as Dhanavel remarks, “… gives expression to the Indian imagination in its richest colours and profound meanings” (9). In his ‘Note’ to Hayavadana, Karnad unambiguously states:

… the central episode in the play, the story of Devadatta and Kapila is based on a tale from the Kathasaritsagara, but I have drawn heavily on Thomas Mann’s reworking of the tale in The Transposed Heads … (TP 68)

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K. Mangaiyarkarasi, M.A., M.Phil.
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Department Of English
S. F. R. College
Sivakasi
Tamil Nadu
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