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# Rasarnavasudhakara 3.375

Rasārṇavasudhākara 3.375

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.375](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.375)

mā bhūc cintā taveyaṃ mayi sati kuśale duṣkaraḥ kiṃ prayogo  
mānin jānāsi kiṃ tvaṃ kim api na viditā cāturī me tvayā kim |  
āstāṃ sva-stotra-kanthā kṛtam iha kathaitair bhūta-pūrvaiḥ prasaṅgaiḥ  
patnyāhaṃ vaśya-karmā sapadi naṭavidhāv eṣa sajjībhavāmi ||

> “Let you not have this anxiety! While I am well, is a performance difficult?  
> O proud one, do you know anything? Was my skill not recognized at all by you?”  
> “Let be this patched garment of self-praise! Enough here of telling these stories of past events!  
> I, who have made my wife submissive, immediately make myself ready for the actor’s craft.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.375.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.375.p1)

atra naṭa-sūtradhārayoḥ paraspara-spardhayā sva-sva-prayoga-sāmarthya-prakāśanād adhibalam |

> Here, because of the revelation of their respective competence in performance through mutual rivalry between the actor and the stage manager, it is mutual rivalry (adhibala).  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara~en-mt.3.375) — English, machine translation

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