• Diptiben Chandrakantbhai Macwan
• Dr. Pratima Rai

The eminent playwright of Kannada, Girish Karnad, resided in Sirsi, a small town in Dharwar. Myths were pervasive in the culture at the time. The myth of the cock of dough is the foundation of Bali's The Sacrifice. The 13th century Kannada epic Yashodhara Charite, which can be traced back to two Sanskrit epics from the 11th and 8th centuries, served as the source of inspiration for Karnad's play. Under the name Hittina Hunja, the play made its debut in Kannada in 1980. For its successful production in Kannada and Hindi, B.V. Karanth and Satyadev Dubey made contributions. Later, Prema Karanth and Lankesh tried their hand at producing it. The English version of the play, which Karnad revised, was performed in 2002 at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in England and was later published in 2004. The roles of the mahout and the Mother Queen were played by well-known actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Pathak. Karnad acknowledges that when he was a teenager, the Cock of Dough myth entered his mind. The play also highlights a conflict between classes. The King, the Queen, the Queen Mother, and the Mahout are the play's four main characters. Despite being a devout Jain, the Queen has an affair with a mahout from a low caste. She has the guts to convince the King to adopt a different religion. Until the play's conclusion, she keeps the identities of the two male characters hidden, the king and the mahout.

Dough, Cock, Epic, Myth

"A Paradoxical nature of nonviolence and adultery mirrored through the character of Amritamati in Girish karnad’s Bali the Sacrifice ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no.a579-a581, January-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301076.pdf

"A Paradoxical nature of nonviolence and adultery mirrored through the character of Amritamati in Girish karnad’s Bali the Sacrifice ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no. ppa579-a581, January-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301076.pdf