[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) › 5.5 # Nagananda 5.5 Nāgānanda 5.5 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.5) ālokyakyamānamatilocanaduḥkhadāyiraktacchaṭānijamarīciruco vimuñcat / utpātavātatalīkṛtatārakābhametatpuraḥ patati kiṃ sahasā nabhastaḥ? // > I am perfectly bewildered in my mind with the thought that Jímútaváhana delays so long. Why do you keep throbbing, O left eye, again and again, indicating some evil as about to happen? Base that you are, yonder sun shall stop your throbbings. (Looking up.) Yonder bright thousand-rayed one, sole eye of the three worlds, shall soon bring to light the happiness of Jímútaváhana. (Looking astonished.) What is this that has suddenly fallen in front of me from the sky? as it were a star, loosened by a portentous wind, shooting forth red streaks, bright as rays, and giving excessive pain to the eye of the beholder. How is this? It has fallen at my very feet. (All look at it.) Alas! it is a crest-jewel, with moist flesh adhering to it! Whose can it be! > — Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World - [Previous: 5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.4) - [Next: 5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.6) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5) ## Translations (1) - [Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda~en-boyd.5.p18) — Palmer Boyd 1872, English ## Linked texts (2) - [Nāgānandanāṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nataka.naganandanataka.5.5) — Sanskrit - [Nāgānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.purana.nagananda.2.82) — Harṣa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.nagananda.5.5) · Pramāṇa