the list. To supply the want, I have ventured to write the "Boy's
Ramayana" and this humble book. I have tried my best to narrate briefly,
in simple and idiomatic English, the stories on which the chief Sanskrit
dramas are based. I hope that the University will be pleased to
re-insert "The Boy's Ramayana" and this book in the list of books
recommended for the Matriculation Examination.

BALARAMADHAM, }
4, Madan Mitter's Lane, } RAMA NATH DUTT.
Calcutta }
_1911--December._ }




TALES

FROM

THE HINDU DRAMATISTS.




SAKUNTALA OR THE LOST RING.


In ancient days, there was a mighty king of the Lunar dynasty by name
Dushyanta. He was the king of Hastinapur. He once goes out a-hunting and
in the pursuit of a deer comes near the hermitage of the sage Kanwa, the