What is a significant satirical sovereign scene in each of the two chronicles?
ANALYTICAL ESSAY 3 (no more than 5 double-spaced pages typed in the 12-point Times
font, using one-inch margins and 0.5-inch paragraph indentations and including your name and
essay title): Select a satirical scene of a sovereign in the Raghuvamsa and a satirical scene of a
sovereign in the Kathsaritsgara; identify how each chronicles scene parodies a portrayal of a
sovereign in the Ramayana, Pancatantra, or Hitopadesa; and explain why each satirical scene
occurs within its chronicle and within this chronicles historical context. Your essay should
address the following six questions in any order:
1. What is a significant satirical sovereign scene in each of the two chronicles?
2. How does each scene reveal its satirical nature?
3. Who is a sovereign portrayed in the Ramayana, Pancatantra, or Hitopadesa whom each scene
parodies?
4. How does each scene parody this earlier sovereign in particular?
5. Why does each satirical scene occur within its chronicle?
6. Why does each satirical scene occur within its chronicles historical context?






