[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Arts, Poetics, Architecture & Lexicography](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art) › [Dramaturgy and Theory of Theatre](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya) › [Rasarnavasudhakara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara) › 3.100 # Rasarnavasudhakara 3.100 Rasārṇavasudhākara 3.100 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.100) sūtra-dhāra-calad-dāru-gātreyaṃ yantra-jānakī | vaktrastha-śārikālāpa laṅkendraṃ vañcayiṣyati || > 'This mechanical Sītā, whose wooden limbs are moved by a puppeteer, > shall deceive the lord of Laṅkā with the speech of a maina bird placed in her mouth.'" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.100.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.100.p1) \[bā.rā. 5.5\] > — \[Bālarāmāyaṇa 5.5\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.100.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.100.p2) ity upakramya, rāvaṇaḥ (punar nirūpya śārikādhiṣṭhita-vaktraṃ sītā-pratikṛti-yantraṃ): aho matimān māyāmayaḥ | chālito' si janaka-rāja-putryāḥ pratikṛti-samarpaṇena (5.20 padyād anantaram\] ity antena mālyavat kapaṭa-vākya-saṃvidhānād abhūtāharaṇam | > — beginning with this, and ending with: Rāvaṇa (observing again the mechanical effigy of Sītā with the maina installed in her mouth): "Oh, clever Māyāmaya! You have deceived me by presenting an effigy of King Janaka's daughter" \[after verse 5.20\] — because of the arrangement of deceitful words by Mālyavān, this is fabrication of the unreal (abhūtāharaṇa). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara~en-mt.3.100) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Bālarāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.rama.balaramayana.6.23) — Rājaśekhara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.100) · Pramāṇa