रत्नावली नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - शास्त्रीय नाटिका रत्न सम्पूर्ण ४ अङ्क सान्वय सटीक)

तृतीयोঽঙ্কঃ 231 আমি বসন্তককে তাঁহার সংবাদ আনিবার জন্য প্রেরণ করিয়াছি; সে এতক্ষণ দেরী করিতেছে কেন ? Eng. Trans. (Then enter the King seated gesticulating his love-sick state) King. Endure, my heart, for the present, the affliction caused by the fire of love. There is no means for its abatement at present and why do you pine for her again in vain? Fool as I was, I had then somehow grasped her hand as cool in touch as the thick sandal-paste and held it for long, but could not manage to place it on you at that time. 1. Oh, what a great wonder!—The mind is unsteady in its very nature and unperceivable (through eyes); inspite of that how could the god of love pierce this (heart) of mine simultaneously with all his arrows? 2. (Looking up) O god with the flowery bow! It has become well-known in the world that the mind-born god has only five arrows (lit., the five arrows of the mind-born deity are fixed) and persons, generally of my type to be aimed at with them, are without number. But now, in you this (usual state of things) is found to be reversed, as the helpless lover (like me) alone, being pierced with your countless arrows, is being led to the state of (being dissolved into) five elements (i. e., death). 3. (Reflecting) Yet I do not think so much for myself reduced to such a (pitiable) condition, as much I do for that poor Ságariká who then came within the sight of the Queen who suppressed within her the accumulated (smouldering) wrath. For— She turns down her countenance, thinking 'iny (secret) has been known to all'; observing two of her companions in conversation, she fancies the subject of the talk to be about her own self; and if her friends be smiling, she displays