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A monk transfers his soul into a courtesan’s body to teach his hedonistic disciple a lesson. When the messenger of death discovers he took the wrong soul, he places the courtesan’s soul in the monk’s body, producing a series of comic confusions until the souls are switched back.
Two drunken Kapalika mendicants, Satyasoma and Devasoma, discover that their skull-bowl is missing. Satyasoma accuses a Buddhist monk, and their quarrel escalates until a Pasupata mediates; a madman then returns the bowl, which he recovered from a dog. The one-act satire lampoons religious sects and their rival claims.
This dance-theatre adaptation follows the comic dispute over a missing skull-bowl: drunken Kapalika mendicants Satyasoma and Devasoma accuse a Buddhist monk before a Pasupata intervenes and a madman returns the bowl, recovered from a dog. The 2003 version was edited to highlight Bharatanatyam.
A monk transfers his soul into a courtesan’s body to teach his hedonistic disciple a lesson. When the messenger of death discovers he took the wrong soul, he places the courtesan’s soul in the monk’s body, producing a series of comic confusions until the souls are switched back.
Two drunken Kapalika mendicants, Satyasoma and Devasoma, discover that their skull-bowl is missing. Satyasoma accuses a Buddhist monk, and their quarrel escalates until a Pasupata mediates; a madman then returns the bowl, which he recovered from a dog. The one-act satire lampoons religious sects and their rival claims.
This dance-theatre adaptation follows the comic dispute over a missing skull-bowl: drunken Kapalika mendicants Satyasoma and Devasoma accuse a Buddhist monk before a Pasupata intervenes and a madman returns the bowl, recovered from a dog. The 2003 version was edited to highlight Bharatanatyam.