Carudatta 1.5

1.5

ghidaguladahisusamiddhaṃ dhūviasūvovadaṃsasambhiṇṇaṃ.
sakkāradattamiṭṭhaṃ bhuñjīadu bhattamayyeṇa..1..
(ghṛtaguhadadhisamṛddhaṃ dhūpitasūpopadaṃśasambhinnam. satkāradattamiṣṭaṃ bhujyatāṃ bhaktamāryeṇa..1..)
(niṣkrāntaḥ)
sthāpanā .
(tataḥ praviśati vidūṣakaḥ.)
vidūṣakaḥ---aṇṇaṃ aṇṇaṃ ṇimantedu dāva bhavaṃ arittao dāva ahaṃ. ṇaṃ bhaṇāmi ahaṃ arittao tti. kiṃ bhaṇāsi---sampaṇṇaṃ asaṇaṃ ahṇidavvaṃ bhavissadi. tti. ahaṃ puṇa jāṇāmi. ahiamahurassa ambassa ajoggadāe aṭṭhi ṇa bhakkhīadi tti. kiṃ dāṇi maṃ ullālia ullālia bhaṇāsi. bhaṇāmi vāvudo tti. kiṃ bhaṇāsi-dakkhiṇāmāsaāṇi bhavissadi tti . eso bāā paccācakkhido hiaeṇa aṇubandhīamāṇo gacchīadi . aho accāhidaṃ . ahaṃ vi ṇāma parassa kṣāmantarāṇi tti takkemi . jo ahaṃ tattahodo cārudattassa gehe ahorattapayyattasiddhehi ṇāṇāvidhehi hiṅguviddhehi oggāraṇasugandhehi bhūkkhevamattapaḍicchidehi antarapāṇīehi asaṇappaārehi cittaaro via bahumallaehi parivudo āaṇṭhamattaṃ ahṇia caccaravusaho via modaakhajjaehi romanthāamāṇo divasaṃ khevemi, so evva dāṇiṃ ahaṃ tattahodo cārudattasya dariddadāe sama pārāvadehi sāhāraṇavutti uvajīvanto aṇṇahi caria caria tassa āvāsaṃ evva gacchāmi . aṇṇaṃ ca acchariaṃ . mama udaraṃ avatthāvisesaṃ jāṇādi . appeṇāvitussādi . bahuaṃ vi odaṇabharaṃ bharissadi dīamāṇaṃ . ṇa āedi adīamāṇaṃ paccācikkhadi. ṇa khu aha eriseṇa ṇa santuṭṭho. tā saṭṭhīkidadevakayyassa tattahodo cārudattasya kāraṇādo gahīdo sumaṇo antalickhavāso a . jāva se passaparivattī homi. (parikramyāvalokya) eso tattabhavaṃ cārudatto pabhādacando via sakaruṇappiadaṃsaṇo jahāvibhaveṇa gihadevadāṇi accaanto ido evva āacchaṣṭi jāpa ṇaṃ uva sappāmi . (niṣkrāntaḥ.) (anyamanyaṃ nimantrayatu tāvat bhavān . ariktakaratāvadaham. nanu bhaṇāmyahamariktaka iti. kiṃ bhaṇasi-sampannamaśanamaśitavyaṃ bhaviṣyatīti. ahaṃ punarjānāmi. adhikaramadhurasya āmrasya ayogyatayā asthi na bhakṣyata iti . kimidānīṃ māmullālyollālya bhaṇasi. bhaṇāmi vyāpṛta iti. kiṃ bhaṇasi-dakṣiṇā māṣakā bhaviṣyantīti. eṣa vācā pratyākhyāto hṛdayenānubavyamāno gamyate. aho atyāhitam. ahamapi nāma parasyāmantraṇānīti tarkayāmi . yo'haṃ tatrabhavataścārudattasya gehe'horātraparyāptasiddhairnānāvidhairhiṅguviddhairud‌gārasugandhibhiḥ bhrūkṣepamātrapratīṣṭairāntarāpānīyairaśanaprakāraiścitrakara iva bahumallakaiḥ parivṛta ākaṇṭhamātramaśitvā catvaravṛṣabha iva modakakhādyai romanthāyamāno divasaṃ kṣipāmi, sa evedānīmahaṃ tatra bhavataścārudattasya daridratayā samaṃ pārāvataiḥ sādhāraṇavṛttimupajīvan anyatra caritvā caritvā tasyāvāsameva gacchāmi. anyaccāścaryam. mamodaramavasthāviśeṣaṃ jānāti. alpenāpi tuṣyati. bahukamapyodanabharaṃ bhariṣyati dīyamānam. na yācate adīyamānaṃ, na pratyācaṣṭe. na khalvahamīdṛśena na santuṣṭaḥ. ṣaṣṭhīkṛtadevakāryasya tatrabhavataścārudattasya kāraṇād gṛhītāni sumanaso'ntarīyavāsaśca . yāvadasya pārśvaparivartī bhavāmi . eṣa tatrabhavāṃścārudattaḥ prabhātacandra iva sakaruṇapriyadarśano yathāvibhavena gṛhadaivatānyarcayan ita evāgacchati . yāvadenamupasarpāmi.)
(tataḥ praviśati balimupaharannāyako vidūṣakaścaṅgerikāhastā ceṭī ca.)
nāyakaḥ---(dīrghaṃ niḥśvasya) bhoḥ! dāridryaṃ khalu nāma manasvinaḥ puruṣasya socchvāsaṃ maraṇam . kutaḥ,
yāsāṃ balirbhavati mad‌gṛhadehalīnāṃ haṃsaiśca sārasagaṇaiśca vibhaktapuṣpaḥ.
tāsveva pūrvabalirūḍhayavāṅkurāsu, bījāñjaliḥ patati kīṭamukhāvalīḍhaḥ .. 2 ..
vidūṣakaḥ---alaṃ dāṇi bhavaṃ adimattaṃ santappiduṃ purusajovvaṇāṇi via giha jovvaṇāṇi khu dasāvisesaṃ aṇuhonti . āsamuddaāṇavipaṇṇavibhavassa bahulapakkhacandassa johṇāparikkhao via bhavado evva ramaṇīo aaṃ dariddabhāvo. (alamidānīṃ bhavānatimātraṃ santaptum. puruṣayauvanānīva gṛhayauvanāni khalu daśāviśeṣamanubhavanti . āsamudradānavipannavibhavasya bahulapakṣacandrasya jyotsnāparikṣaya iva bhavata eva ramaṇīyo'yaṃ daridrabhāvaḥ .)
nāyakaḥ---na khalvahaṃ naṣṭāṃ śriyamanuśocāmi. guṇarasajñasya tu puruṣasya vyasanaṃ dāruṇataraṃ māṃ pratibhāti . kutaḥ,

Rich with ghee, jaggery, and curd, accompanied by smoking seasoned lentils— / let the noble sir enjoy this delicious food given with hospitality. (1) / (Exit) / Prologue. / (Then enters the jester.) / Jester: Invite someone else, sir! I am not free. I tell you, I am not free! What do you say? "Fine food will be eaten"? But I know that however sweet a mango is, the stone is not eaten because it is unfit. Why do you coax me again and again with your talk? I say I am busy! What do you say? "There will be māṣaka coins as sacrificial fees"? Here I refuse in words, but follow in my heart and go! Ah, what a calamity! That I too should be calculating invitations from strangers! I who in the house of the noble Cārudatta, with food ready day and night in various ways, laced with asafoetida, with fragrant belches, with water in between received at the mere raising of an eyebrow, surrounded by many dishes like a painter [by cups of paint], eating until I was full to the throat, spent my day chewing the cud like a bull in a public square with sweetmeats—that very same I, now, because of the poverty of the noble Cārudatta, having a common livelihood with the pigeons, roaming here and there and eating, go back only to his dwelling! And another wonder: my belly knows the difference in circumstances. It is satisfied with little; it would also fill itself with a large load of rice when given. It does not beg when nothing is given, nor does it refuse. I am certainly not unsatisfied with such [a state]. Now, for the sake of the noble Cārudatta, who has performed the rites to the gods on the sixth day, I have taken flowers and an undergarment. Let me attend upon him. (Walking around and looking) Here comes the noble Cārudatta, lovely and pitiful to behold like the morning moon, worshipping the household deities according to his means, right this way. Let me approach him. (Exit.) / (Then enters the hero making a domestic offering, the jester, and a maidservant with a basket in hand.) / Hero: (Sighing deeply) Ah! Poverty is indeed a breathing death for a man of spirit. For: / On my house's thresholds where offerings were made, with flowers distributed by swans and flocks of cranes, / on those very thresholds, where barley shoots sprout from past offerings, falls a handful of seeds licked by the mouths of insects. (2) / Jester: Enough now of your sir grieving excessively! The youth of houses, like the youth of men, certainly experience change of fortune. Like the waning of moonlight of the moon in the dark fortnight, this state of poverty is charming in you alone, whose wealth has been lost through giving that reached as far as the ocean. / Hero: I do not at all grieve for lost wealth; but misfortune seems all the more dreadful to me in the case of a man who appreciates virtues. For,