Ever since my first visit to the Greatest Teacher of the world, Lord Buidha, had a special attraction for me. The idea of writing a drama on the subject was put into my head by some of my Colombo friends. Much has been written about the life of the Great Öste, and there has been so much of variation as to details according to different authors. The difficulty of my task was chiefly to choose, as to what I was to retain, for a five-act cirama to be acted within the space of three hours. I know there are several incidents of Lord Budha’s life which orthodox Budhists would blame me for having ormitted ; my answer to them is that what I have written is not a biography, but a drama, I have to thank my Budhist friends for their kind suggestiqms in the course of my writing this work. ï sha!l a}\yay š feel thankful for any further suggestions or corrections, which I will attend to, in my next Edition of this book. I have also to thank my friend Mr. A. Madhaviah for his having kindly permitted me to use two of his poetic translations of some of the lines of Edwin Arnold, A mere study of the life of the Great Teacher has made me a different man, May this humble work induce some at least of my readers, to follow the great lessons taught by the Light of the Universe. N. B.--Societies desirous of staging this or any other drama by me are informed that they have to pay a smaj} Royalty for each performance and obtain my previous permission before doing so, “ PAMMAL LODGE” § # The Author G, T, MADRAS. )
