प्रियदर्शिका नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - चतुरङ्क शास्त्रीय नाटिका सान्वय सटीक)

Act III.] 18 pp. 25-26. to disclose all to her. (Aloud; seizing her by the hand). Dear friend, do not be angry, pray do not. It is bash- fulness that is at fault. MANO.—(Joyfully) Friend, away with hesitation. Tell me this. Have you been really seen by the king or not? AR'ANY.—(Bashfully with face hung down) My dear friend has already heard everything. ` MANO.—If you have been seen by the king, then don't you be worrying yourself. He himself will be eagerly engaged in devising some means to see you. AR'ANY.—This my friend speaks with partiality. O you, lover of (blinded by love for) a friend, how can this be (expected) from a person who is, indeed, bound by the chains of the Queen's virtues. MANO.—(Laughing) O you, silly girl (Lit. wanting in clever perception), although the bee has its love for the lotus plant, how can it, when it has seen the Mālati (jasmine) and is eager to taste its new flavour, rest quiet without obtaining it] AR'AN.—What is the use of talking about this which is impossible? Come away then. My limbs, which are all the more tormented by the autumnal heat, do not give up their heat even now. MANO.—O you bashful one, it is not proper for you, even when reduced to such a plight, to conceal the real

• state of your heart. (AR'ANYIKĀ' hangs down her face.) MANO.—O you naturally unconfiding one, what can you conceal now! Does not your passion, manifesting itself (lit. coming out) day and night, in the guise of sighs, as though it were the hum sound caused by the incessantly falling shower of the shafts of the flower- arrowed God (Cupid) tell it. (To herself) Or rather, this is not, indeed, the time for chiding her. So in the first place I will put some lotus-leaves on her bosom. (Rises, -and having taken some lotus-leaves from the pond places -them on AR'ANYAKA'S heart.) Let my friend take comfort, let my friend take comfort.