[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) › 4.18 # Nagananda 4.18 Nāgānanda 4.18 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.18) cañcaccañcūddhṛtārddha cyutapiśitalavagrāsasaṃvṛddhagarddhai- rgṛddhairārabdhapakṣadvitayavidhutibhirbaddhasāndrāndhakāre / vaktroddhāntāḥ patantyaśchamiti śikhiśikhāśreṇayosmin śivānā- masrasrotasmajasrasru tabahalavasāvāsavisre svananti // > Jímútaváhana. > What can possibly be devised? She who dies in your death and lives only in your life,—if you wish her to live, save yourself by my life. This is the only remedy, so give me quickly the badge of death, that, having disguised myself in it, I may mount the execution rock. And do you, thinking of your mother before all, retire from your post. Probably your mother, if she stood in view of the place of execution, would abandon life. Do you not see the great cemetery, filled with many skeletons of the ill-fated Nágas? See here, rows upon rows of the crests of the slain Nágas, coated thick with oozing brains, splash as they fall from the jaws of the jackalls into the stream of carrion-smelling gore, while the scene is shrouded in awful darkness by the flapping wings of the vultures, their greed increased by the gobbets of raw flesh which fall mangled from their chattering beaks! > — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World - [Previous: 4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.17) - [Next: 4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.19) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4) ## Translations (1) - [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.4.p87) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English ## Linked texts (1) - [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.4.17.p2) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.4.18) · Pramāṇa