The Buddha - A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Buddha, by Paul Carus This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes Author: Paul Carus Release Date: September 27, 2007 [EBook #22782] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BUDDHA *** Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: The spelling, accents, and diacritical marks 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. 1 ACT II. 28 ACT III. 54 ACT IV. 70 ACT V. 78 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.