338. 376 MA CHAPTER VI

376 MA CHAPTER VI

This kind of sub-plot we find in the Shakespearian dramas also. In As you Like It, for instance, the story of Celia can be presented to be very much like that of Sugrīva inasmuch as she helps Rosalind in her own way, and, while so doing, herself attains her end, the union with the object of her love, Oliver. For, the story of Celia and Orlando is brought about,

1. By Celia accompanying Rosalind into Banishment. 2. By the banishment of Oliver. 3. By the meeting and reconciliation of Oliver and Orlando. 4. By the wound of Orlando, which prevents his keeping his appointment with Rosalind. He sends Oliver to explain his absence. Oliver and Celia meet and fall in love with each other.

IV. MINOR PLOT (PRAKARI). But when the main character of a sub-plot achieves no end of his own and his action simply helps the central flgure in some way, it is called Prakarī.1 While the former, sub-plot, is closely connected with the main and extends from the time of its introduction to the third or fourth stage of action in the drama, the latter comes in just at one point and ends there. It may, therefore, be called Minor plot : as for instance, the story of Krishna2 in the Veņī Samhāra. The minor plots in the dramas of Shakespeare are more or less of this nature; for instance, the story of Duke Frederick in As You Like it. The chief point of distinction between the sub-plot and the minor plot, the Pataka and the Prakari, is that

1. N. S., Ch. 21. V. 25-6. 2. A. Bh. (MSS) Ch. 19 V. 25.