The Recognition of Śakuntalā 1.7

1.7

grīvābhaṅgābhirāmaṃ muhur anupatati syandane dattadṛṣṭiḥ
paścārdhena praviṣṭaḥ śarapatanabhayād bhūyasā pūrvakāyam /
darbhair ardhāvalīḍhaiḥ śramavivṛtamukhabhraṃśibhiḥ kīrṇavartmā
paśyodagraplutatvād viyati bahutaraṃ stokam urvyāṃ prayāti //
(savismayam) tad eṣa katham anupatata eva me prayatnaprekṣaṇīyaḥ saṃvṛttaḥ /
sūtaḥ āyuṣmann udghātinī bhūmir iti mayā raśmisaṃyamanād rathasya mandīkṛto vegaḥ / tena mṛga eṣa viprakṛṣṭāntaraḥ saṃvṛttaḥ / saṃprati samadeśavartinas te na durāsado bhaviṣyati /
rājā tena hi mucyantām abhīṣavaḥ /

His neck in beauty bends
As backward looks he sends
At my pursuing car
That threatens death from far.
Fear shrinks to half the body small;
See how he fears the arrow's fall! The path he takes is strewed
With blades of grass half-chewed
From jaws wide with the stress
Of fevered weariness.
He leaps so often and so high,
He does not seem to run, but fly.

(In surprise.) Pursue as I may, I can hardly keep him in sight.

Charioteer. Your Majesty, I have been holding the horses back because the ground was rough. This checked us and gave the deer a lead. Now we are on level ground, and you will easily overtake him.

King. Then let the reins hang loose.