Carudatta 3.10

3.10

bhavatu, ekāntameva cchedayiṣye .
vidūṣakaḥ---bho! jāgatti khu bhavaṃ, ṇahi. [bhoḥ! jāgarti khalu bhavān, na hi. ]
nāyakaḥ---kimartham.
vidūṣakaḥ---ahaṃ khu dāva kattavvakaratthīkidasaṅkedo via sakkiasamaṇao ṇiddaṃ ṇa labhāmi. vāmaṃ khu me akkhi phandedi. coro sandhiṃ chindadī via pekkhāmi. jai īdisī avatthā atthāṇaṃ, jādīe dariddo evva homi. [ahaṃ khalu tāvat kartavyakarastrīkṛtasaṅketa iva śākyaśramaṇako nidrāṃ na labhe. vāmaṃ khalume'kṣispandate. coraḥ sandhiṃ chinattīva paśyāmi. yadīdṛśyavasthā'rthānāṃ, jātyā daridra eva bhavāmi.]
nāyakaḥ---mūrkha! dhik tvām! dāridryamabhilaṣasi .
sajjalakaḥ---atha kenedānīṃ sandhicchedamārgaḥ sūcayitavyaḥ syāt. nanvidaṃ divā brahmasūtraṃ rātrau karmasūtraṃ bhaviṣyati.
adyāsya bhittiṣu mayā niśi pāṭitāsu
chedāt samāsu sakṛdarpitakākalīṣu .
kālyaṃ viṣādavimukhaḥ prativeśavargo
doṣāṃśca me vadatu karmasu kauśalaṃ ca ..10..

Let it be, I will cut it in an isolated corner.
Vidūṣaka—Hey! Are you awake, sir? No?
Hero—What is the matter?
Vidūṣaka—Indeed, like a Buddhist monk who has made an assignation with an approachable woman, I cannot get any sleep! My left eye is twitching. I seem to see a thief cutting a breach. If this is the condition of wealth, let me remain poor by birth!
Hero—Fool! Shame on you! You wish for poverty!
Sajjalaka—Now, with what should the line of the breach be marked? Surely this, a sacred thread by day, will be a measuring string by night.
Tonight, when its walls are breached by me,
made even from the cut with a crowbar once applied,
let the neighbors in the morning, their faces downcast in distress,
speak both of my crimes and of my skill in the art! .. 10 ..