Modern Sanskrit Plays
Manmohan Acharya, a modern Sanskrit play-write has written many plays and dance dramas. Some worth-mentioning plays are Arjuna-Pratijnaa,Shrita-kamalam, Pada-pallavam, Divya-Jayadevam, Pingalaa, Mrtyuh, Sthitaprajnah, Tantra-mahasaktih, Purva-sakuntalam, Uttara-sakuntalam and Raavanah.
Prafulla kumar Mishra has written the plays Chitrangada and Karuna.
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