[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Drama (rūpaka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays) › [The Trivandrum plays attributed to Bhāsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bhasa) › [Carudatta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bhasa.carudatta) › 3.3 # Carudatta 3.3 Cārudatta 3.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bhasa.carudatta.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) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bhasa.carudatta.3.2) - [Next: 3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bhasa.carudatta.3.4) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bhasa.carudatta.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bhasa.carudatta~en-mt.3.3) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Mṛcchakaṭika](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.prakarana.mrcchakatika.3.6) — Śūdraka, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bhasa.carudatta.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.bhasa.carudatta.3.3) · Pramāṇa