The play centers around a 7 year fire sacrifice to propitiate Indra. the King of Gods, to bring rain. Woven around a little
known tale from the Mahabharata. Girish Karnad brings into focus caste hegemony and the subservience of the marginalized classes
to the power of the brahmin. Strands of marital revolt, self-sacrifice, the life-art interplay and the case of the larger good occupy key
positions in the play's spectrum.