Chronicle Reporter, Bhopal, Rehearsal for Yashodhara festival is being organised at Gandhi Bhavan. The theatre festival Yashodhara is based on Jataka Tales. The festival mainly focuses on Jataka Tales and its origin.
Various kinds of Jataka tales will be showcased by stage artists. Giving information about festival Vaishali said that every play has got a social message.
The Jataka tales are a voluminous body of literature concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.
Often, Jataka tales include an extensive cast of characters who interact and get into various kinds of trouble where upon the Buddha character intervenes to resolve all the problems and bring about a happy ending.