A political novel relating to the vedic times,it is a brilliant picture of the socio=political ethos of the period.In particular it centres round the fulcrum of the practice of niyoga,the practice prevalent at the time,of legal adultery,of an infertile husband allowing his wife to beget progeny from another man.Through a host of plots and sub-plots it tells the reader how the practice came to an end.The novel is one of the all-time bests of creative fiction in Kannada. The book has been ably translated int0 English by P.P.Giridhar a scholar by himself.
