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Rasarnavasudhakara 3.199

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3.199

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

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

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King: "What kind of expedient?"

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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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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.

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