Jessonda

About the show

Jessonda, a rajah’s widow, is ordered to die on his funeral pyre. Nadori, the young Brahmin sent to deliver the order, loves her sister Amazili and vows to save Jessonda. Portuguese general Tristan d’Acunha discovers that she was his former love; after a breach of the truce gives him an opening, he rescues her before the chief Brahmin can carry out the sacrifice.