Hanuman Nataka (critical study)
by Nurima Yeasmin | 2015 | 41,386 words
This page relates ‘The character of Sumitra’ of the English study on the Hanuman-nataka written by Shri Damodara Mishra in the 11th century. The Hanumannataka is a Mahanataka—a fourteen-act Sanskrit drama dealing with the story of Rama and Hanumat (Hanuman) and presents the events in the lifes of Rama, Sita, Ravana and Hanuman (the son of Anjana and Vayu—the God of the Winds) based on the Ramayana story.
9.13. The character of Sumitrā
Sumitrā is the queen of Daśaratha and mother of Lakṣmaṇa and Śatrughna. Sumitrā says Lakṣmaṇa to treat Rāma as his father Daśaratha and Sītā as his mother Sumitrā and the forest as Ayodhyā.[1] Here is a minor character in the Hanumannāṭaka However, her sense of duty as a wife and a mother comes to be reflected by her words.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
rāmaṃ daśarathaṃ viddhi māṃ viddhi janakātmajām/ ayodhyāmaṭavīṃ viddhi gaccha putra! yathāsukham// ibid., III.9