India has predominantly been a patriarchal society since time immemorial. The worth of a man is established in his intelligence and strength whereas a woman is viewed naturally weaker and rationally deficient. This long injustice against women draws the attention of the dramatists. Many contemporary Indian playwrights have endeavoured to give voice to the sufferings and predicaments of women. Girish Karnad has dealt with the gender issues in his Nagamandala. The play not only attacks and exposes male bigotry, the repression of women, the discrimination done to them by men and the patriarchal culture, but also quietly deflates the concept of chastity. It is a play on the liberation and empowerment of the women who have to play an essential role for the revival of a deteriorated social order. Through the use of folk tales, myths and legends Karnad presents conjugal life in Indian patriarchal culture. He weaves together timeless truths about human life and emotions contained in ancient Indian stories with the changing social morals of modern life. The present paper attempts to break the patriarchal dimension that the inferiority of a woman is pre – destined through the dynamics and dimensions of Rani's journey from the marginalized position to the central one in her conjugal life.