Parabels of Mahavir

Author(s): Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Shri Kiran Publishers

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hands of bidders in the market; and believe me! the cloth once united, the sum once divided will, even if we be divided, make us both millionaires !
SOM (widening his eyes ) Millionaires ! what! what did you say ? millionaires ? millionaires ?.... ( as though in a trance, he walks for a few seconds and then impulsively rushes out ) (the stage blacks out, the front curtain is
Towered ) ( We see Som running past the front curtain several times as though covering great distance; then, the front curtain rises revealing a single tree of briers, and the shadow of Mahavir on a platform back-stage passing as though on a height. The briers are luminous, they have caught the other half of the cloth which now hangs by a brier)
We notice in the beautiful many-coloured glow on the stage-a band of angels, as though behind a veil which renders them unreal, chant and dance round a brier tree set in the centre of the stage,