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The Recognition of Śakuntalā 6.18a5

Devanāgarī recension 6.18a5

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Sanskrit

6.18a5

vidūṣaka bhoḥ kiṃ nu tatrabhavatī raktakuvalayapallavaśobhināgrahastena mukham avārya cakitacakiteva sthitā / (sāvadhānaṃ nirūpya dṛṣṭvā)

Clown. But why does she cover her face with fingers lovely as the pink water-lily? She seems frightened. (He looks more closely.) I see. Here is a bold, bad bee. He steals honey, and so he flies to her lotus-face.

Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works)

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