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# Nagananda 1.10

Nāgānanda 1.10

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.1.10)

dakṣiṇaṃ spandate cakṣuḥ phalākāṅkṣā na me kvacit /  
na ca mithyā munivacaḥ kathayiṣyati kiṃ nvidam //

> Jímútaváhana (starting from a throbbing of his right eye).  
> My right eye throbs, though I have no object of desire. Yet the saying of the wise cannot prove false. What, then, can this portend?  
> — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World

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## Translations (1)

- [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.1.p18) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English

## Linked texts (2)

- [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.1.14) — Sanskrit
- [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.other.nagananda-2.1.8-2) — Harṣa, Sanskrit

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