Sri Jaggu Alwar Iyengar, with the pen-name Vakulabhushana, comes from a traditional family of Sanskrit scholar-poets ; and his numerous original contributions to modern Sanskrit literature, poems, plays etc., have won encomiums of traditional pundits and literary scholars alike. Not only he enjoys the popularity of a sahaja-kavi among literary scholars, and is a recipient of several public honours, but he is also a representative of a fast-disappearing tradition in the South of pure secular literature in Sanskrit. He has distinguished himself as a master of chiselled, chaste and felicitous phrasing in Sanskrit which can infuse new life into old legends and at the same time handle new historical themes with consummate art, free from the decadent flaws of prolixity, bombast and longwindedness. The two short plays published now show the playwright at his best.
