Rasarnavasudhakara 3.199

3.199

atha dhīḥ-
iṣṭārtha-siddhi-paryantā cintā dhīr iti kathyate ||

Now, intellect (dhī): / Intellect is called the thought that continues until the attainment of the desired object.

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88a

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yathā mālavikāgnimitre caturthāṅke [4.2 padyād anantaram] rājā (niśvasya saparāmarśam)-sakhe kim atra kartavyam ?

As in the Mālavikāgnimitra, in the fourth act [after verse 4.2], King (sighing and reflecting): "Friend, what is to be done here?"

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vidūṣakaḥ (vicintya)-atthi ettha ubāo | [asty atropāyaḥ |]

Vidūṣaka (thinking): "There is an expedient here."

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rāja-kim iva ?

King: "What kind of expedient?"

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vidūṣakaḥ (sa-dṛṣṭi-kṣepam)-ko bi adiṭṭho suṇissad | kaṇṇe de kahemi (ity upaśliṣya karṇe) evaṃ bia | [ko' py adṛṣṭaḥ śroṣyati | karṇe te kathayāmi | evam iva | ] ity āvedayati |

Vidūṣaka (glancing around): "Someone unseen might hear. I shall tell you in your ear. (drawing close to his ear) Like this..." thus he informs him.

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rājā saharṣaṃ-suṣṭhu prayujyatāṃ siddhaye | ity atra vidūṣakeṇa dhāriṇī-hasta-maṇi-mudrikākarṣāṇa-hetu-bhūtasya bhujaga-viṣa-vega-kapaṭasya cintanaṃ dhīḥ |

King (with joy): "Let it be properly employed for success!" Here, the Vidūṣaka's conceiving of the pretense of a snake-bite's poison-paroxysm, which serves as the cause for drawing off the jewelled signet-ring from Dhāriṇī's hand, is intellect.