SakAraH The brother of a king's concubine, the brother-in-law of a king by a wife not regularly married ( anUQABrAtf ); (he is usually represented as a strange mixture of pride, folly, and vanity, of low family, 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, constant references to his high connection, his ( pb ) blundering and ludicrous folly, but withal cruelty enough to throttle the heroine when she refused to yield to his desire; S. D. thus defines him: - madamUrKatABimAnI duzkulatESvaryasaMyuktaH . soyamanUQABrAtA rAjYaH SyAlaH SakAra ityuktaH .. 81 ).