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

Act IV. ] 32 pp. 44-46. So I will just now go to my couch and think about the means of propitiating the Queen. ( Exeunt Omnes. ) END OF ACT III. ———— ACT IV ⸺o-o⸺ ( Enter MANORAMA' ) MANORAMA'—Oh the long continuity of the Queen's anger ! She does not take pity on my dear friend A'ranyikà, though confined for so long a time. The poor girl is not distressed so much by the hardships of her own imprisonment as by her despair to see the King. And such is her affliction that to-day I prevented her with great difficulty from killing herself. I have come having asked Vasantaka to communicate the matter to the King. ( Then enter KA'NCHANAMA'LA ). KA'NCHA—Strange that I did not find the revered Sàmkrityant though searching for her. ( Looking on ) I will then ask this Manoramà ( Going forth ) Manoramà, do you know where the revered Sámkrityā- yani is ? MANORAMA'—( Looking at her and wiping off her tears.) Friend, Kánchanamálà, I have seen her; but what have yon to do with her ? KA'NCHANA —To-day a lettor was sent by her Highness Angâravati. That being read, the Queen, with eyes filled with tears, began to feel greatly pained. So for her diversion I am searching for the venerable lady. MANORAMA'—Friend, but what was written in that letter ? KA'NCHANA.—She who is my sister is just like your mother; and her husband is ( as ) your father. So need this be told to you ? It is more than a year since