His other works fuse lyrical flow and emotional rhythm into a tight focus on a core idea, a break from prior Bengali drama. Tagore sought "the play of feeling and not of action". In 1890 he released what is regarded as his finest drama: "Visarjan" ("Sacrifice"). It is an adaptation of "Rajarshi", an earlier novella of his. "A forthright denunciation of a meaningless cruel superstitious rite[s", the Bengali originals feature intricate subplots and prolonged monologues that give play to historical events in seventeenth-century Udaipur. The devout Maharaja of Tripura is pitted against the wicked head priest Raghupati. His latter dramas were more philosophical and allegorical in nature; these included "Dak Ghar". Another is Tagore's "Chandalika" ("Untouchable Girl"), which was modelled on an ancient Buddhist legend describing how Ananda, the Gautama Buddha's disciple, asks a tribal girl for water.