A FEMINIST STUDY OF GIRISH KARNAD’SNAGA- MANDALA

Naga-Mandala is a play on the emancipation and empowerment of the women who have to play a vital role for the regeneration of a degenerate social order. Rani, the heroine of the play, who is humiliated and derided as a ‘harlot’ before the village elders, undertakes the ‘snake ordeal’. She comes outoure. She is elevated to divinity and is hailed by all as a goddess. Her husband Appanna realizes his mistakes, accepts her with all humility and feelings of sincere remorse and repentance.