Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: The spelling and accents of Sanskrit names is not consistent in the book. The Table of Contents is not part of the original book. THE BUDDHA A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS AND FOUR INTERLUDES BY PAUL CARUS CHICAGO THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO. LONDON: 149 Strand 1913 * * * * * CONTENTS DIRECTIONS TO THE STAGE MANAGER. CAST OF CHARACTERS. GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN TERMS. ACT I. ACT II. ACT III. ACT IV. ACT V. * * * * * DIRECTIONS TO THE STAGE MANAGER. The scenery can be made very attractive by both historical accuracy and a display of Oriental luxury, but the drama may easily be performed with simple means at a small cost without losing its dramatic effect. Some of the changes, however, should be very rapid. The interludes can be replaced by lantern slide pictures, or may be omitted. If the interludes are retained there need not be any intermission in the whole drama. The music for the Buddha's Hymn of Victory, pages 5 and 39 (see _The Open Court_, XIX, 49); the dirge on page 19, (_Open Court_, XIX, 567); Yasodhara's Song, page 37 (_Open Court_, XVIII, 625); and the Doxology, page 63 and at the end (_Open Court_, XVIII, 627), may be found in a collection entitled _Buddhist Hymns_ (Chicago, Open Court Publishing Co., 1911). COPYRIGHT BY THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO. 1913 * * * * * CAST OF CHARACTERS. _All vowels to be pronounced as in Italian._ Siddhattha Gotama, Prince of the Sakyas, later on the Buddha _B_ Suddhodana, King of the Sakyas, father of Siddhattha _S_ Pajapati, Queen of the Sakyas, aunt and stepmother of Siddhattha _P_ Princess Yasodhara, Siddhattha's wife _Y_ Rahula, Yasodhara's son _R_ Devadatta, brother of Yasodhara _Dd_ Kala Udayin, a gardener's son _K_ Gopa, Yasodhara's maid _G_ Visakha, a Brahman, Prime Minister of Suddhodana _V_ Devala, a Sakya Captain _D_ Bimbisara, King of Magadha _Bb_ Ambapali, King Bimbisara's favorite _Ap_