Carudatta 3.3

3.3

vidūṣakaḥ---kāmaṃ pasaṃsedu bhavaṃ. mama khu dāva gāanto maṇusso itthiā vipaṭhantī ubhaaṃ ādara ṇa dedi . gāanto dāva maṇusso rattasumaṇāveṭhṭhido via purohido diḍha ṇa sohai. itthiā vi paṭhantī chiṇṇaṇāsiā via dheṇuā adivirūvā hoi . [kāmaṃ praśaṃsatu bhavān . mama khalu tāvad‌ gāyan manuṣyaḥ stryapi paṭhantyubhayamādaraṃ na dadāti . gāyaṃstāvanmanuṣyo raktasumanoveṣṭita iva purohito dṛḍhaṃ na śobhate . stryapi paṭhantī chinnanāsikeva dhenurativirūpā bhavati.]
nāyakaḥ---sakhe! upārūḍho'rdharātraḥ . sthiratimirā rājamārgāḥ . nissampātapuruṣatvāt prasuptevojjayinī pratibhāti. kutaḥ,
asau hi dattvā timirāvakāśamastaṃ gato hyaṣṭamapakṣacandraḥ .
ttoyāvagāḍhasya vanadvipasya viṣāṇakoṭīva nimajjamānā .. 3 ..

Jester: You may praise it as much as you please. For my part, a singing man and a woman reciting—neither gives me any pleasure. A man singing does not look at all attractive, like a family priest wound round with red flowers. And a woman reciting is exceedingly ugly, like a cow with a severed nose.
Hero: Friend! Midnight has arrived. The royal roads are set in thick darkness. Because no people are passing, Ujjayinī seems fast asleep. For,
Having given room to darkness, the moon of the eighth day has set, / like the tip of the tusk of a wild elephant sinking when he plunges into water. (3)