 Ahalya's tale lives on in modern-day poetry, including works by Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali and English; P. T. Narasimhachar's 1940 Kannada poetic drama, "Ahalya", which weighs "kama" against "dharma" (pleasure against duty); and the works of the Sanskrit scholar and poet Chandra Rajan.It is retold numerous times in stage enactments as well as in film and television productions.Ahalya is a popular motif in the Mahari temple-dancer tradition of Odisha.