The brother of a king's concubine, the brother-in-law of a king by a wife not regularly mar- ried anūḍhābhrātṛ); (he is usually re- presented as a strange mixture of pride, folly, and vanity, of low fa- mily, and raised to power by reason of his relation to the king. In the Mṛcchakaṭikā of Śūdraka where he plays a prominent part, his character is well exhibited in his lightness and frivolity of spirit, vain-glory,...