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Carudatta 4.15

Cārudatta 4.15

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Sanskrit

4.15

madanikā---ajjue! ṇahi, tassakerao tti me paḍibhādi. [ajjuke! nahi, tadīya iti me pratibhāti.]
gaṇikā---gaccha, pavesehi ṇaṃ. [gaccha, praveśayainam.]
madanikā---taha. (niṣkrāntā.) [tathā.]
gaṇikā---aho ramaṇijjadā ajja divasassa. [aho ramaṇīyatā'dya divasasya].
(tataḥ praviśati madanikā sajjalakena saha.)
sajjalakaḥ---kaṣṭā khalvātmaśaṅkā nāma,
yaḥ kaściccakitagatirnirīkṣate māṃ sambhrānto drutamupasarpati sthito vā.
sarvāstāṃstulayati doṣato mano me svairdoṣairbhavati hi śaṅkito manuṣyaḥ..6..

Madanikā: Mistress! No, it seems to me that he belongs to him.
Courtesan: Go, show him in.
Madanikā: Yes. (She exits.)
Courtesan: Ah, the charm of this day!
(Then enters Madanikā with Sajjalaka.)
Sajjalaka: Painful indeed is suspicion of oneself:
Whoever looks at me with timid step, / or rushes near in confusion, or stands still, / my mind weighs all of them as due to guilt; / for a man is made suspicious by his own misdeeds. (6)

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