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# Rasarnavasudhakara 3.199

Rasārṇavasudhākara 3.199

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.199](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.199.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.199.p1)

88a

### [3.199.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.199.p2)

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?"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.199.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.199.p3)

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

> Vidūṣaka (thinking): "There is an expedient here."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.199.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.199.p4)

rāja-kim iva ?

> King: "What kind of expedient?"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.199.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.199.p5)

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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.199.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.199.p6)

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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara~en-mt.3.199) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Rasasudhākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.rasasudhakara.5.87) — Sanskrit

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