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Manohara is the Kinnari (half woman, half bird) heroine of the Jataka Tale story of Prince Sudhana and Manohara. The legend appears in the Divyavadana and is documented by stone reliefs at Borobodur.
This story is famous in Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia. The Pannasjataka, Pali text written by a Buddhist monk/sage in Chiangmai around AD 1450-1470, also told the story of Sudhana and Manohra. There are also many similar versions told in China, Japan and Korea, including the Chinese story of the Princess and the Cowherd. (See Qixi Festival.) In these stories, seven women who can fly descended to earth to take a bath, the youngest and prettiest of whom was captured by a human, and subsequently became a wife of a male human (either her captor or the prince-hero of the story). Later in the stories, the heroine put on some magical thing that enabled her to fly or transform into a bird, and flew away; prompting the quest by the hero in pursuit of his flying wife.
Manohara is a 1954 Tamil language historical fiction film starring Sivaji Ganesan, S. S. Rajendran, P. Kannamba, T. R. Rajakumari and Girija in the lead roles. The film was based on a play of same name by Pammal Sambandha Mudaliar and was directed by L. V. Prasad. It was dubbed into Telugu as Manohara and Hindi as Manohar and released on 3 June 1954 simultaneously.