[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) › [Nagananda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda) › 3.13 # Nagananda 3.13 Nāgānanda 3.13 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.3.13) dinakarakarāmṛṣṭaṃ bibhrat dyutiṃ paripāṭalāṃ daśanakiraṇauḥ saṃsarpadbhiḥ sphuṭīkṛtakesaram / ayi makhamidaṃ mugdhe ! satyaṃ samaṃ kamalena te madhu madhukaraḥ kintvetasmin pibbanna vibhāvyate? // > Jímútaváhana (looking in the face of heroine). > O lovely one! if this face of thine, with its pink flush as it is lighted up by the sun's rays, and with its soft down revealed by the spreading gleam of its teeth, is really a lotus, why is not a bee seen drinking the honey from it? > — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World - [Previous: 3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.3.12) - [Next: 3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.3.14) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.3) ## Translations (1) - [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.3.p104) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English ## Linked texts (3) - [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.3.13) — Sanskrit - [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.46.67) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit - [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.purana.nagananda.1.44) — Harṣa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.3.13) · Pramāṇa