Ratnavali 20.10

20.10

(2.98) Vidūṣakaḥ | bho vaassa | jassa uṇa īdisīo vi piasamāgamaṃ bahumaṇṇanti tassa de attaṇo uvari ko parihavo jeṇa imāe jjevva ālihidaṃ attāṇaaṃ ṇa pekkhasi |
(2.99) Rājā | nivarṇya | vayasya | anayālikhito 'ham iti yat satyam idānīm ātmany eva bahumānaḥ | tat kathaṃ na paśyāmi |
bhāti patito likhantyās tasyā bāṣpāmbuśīkarakaṇaughaḥ |
svedodgama iva karatalasaṃsparśād eva me vapuṣi || 35 || (2.10)
(2.100) Sāgarikā | ātmagatam | hiaa | samassasa samassasa | maṇoradho vi de ettiaṃ bhūmiṃ ṇa gado |
(2.101) Susaṃgatā | sahi | tumaṃ jevva ekkā salāhaṇīā jāe bhaṭṭā evvaṃ saṃtosīadi |
(2.102) Vidūṣakaḥ | pārśvato 'valokya | bho | edaṃ avaraṃ sarasakamaliṇīdalamuṇālaviraidaṃ tāe maaṇāvatthāsūaaṃ saaṇīaṃ lakkhīadi |
(2.103) Rājā | nipuṇaṃ abhilakṣitam | tathā hi |
parimlānaṃ pīnastanajaghanasaṅgādubhayata-
stanor madhyasyāntaḥ parimilanam aprāpya haritam |
idaṃ vyastanyāsaṃ ślathabhujalatākṣepavalanaiḥ
kṛśāṅgyāḥ saṃtāpaṃ vadati bisinīpattraśayanam || 36 || (2.11)
api casthitam urasi viśālaṃ padminīpattram etat
kathayati na tathāntar manmathotthām avasthām |
atiśayaparitāpaglāpitābhyāṃ yathāsyāḥ
stanayugapariṇāhaṃ maṇḍalābhyāṃ bravīti || 37 || (2.12)
(2.104) Vidūṣakaḥ | nāṭyena mṛṇālikāṃ gṛhītvā | bho | aaṃ avaro tāe jjevva pīṇatthaṇakilissantakomalamuṇālahāro | tā pekkhadu bhavaṃ |
(2.105) Rājā | gṛhītvorasi vinyasya | ayi jaḍaprakṛte |
paricyutas tatkucakumbhamadhyāt
kiṃ śoṣam āyāsi mṛṇālahāra |
na sūkṣmatantor api tāvakasya
tatrāvakāśo bhavataḥ kathaṃ syāt || 38 || (2.13)

(2.98) Vidūṣaka: Ah, friend, when even such women prize union with you, what slight could there be to yourself that you do not look at yourself drawn by her?

(2.99) King: Looking closely: Friend, truly, learning that I have been painted by her, I now have self-esteem. So how should I not look?

This shower of teardrops fallen as she painted
shines on my body like an eruption of sweat
merely from the touch of her palm. || 35

(2.100) Sāgarikā: To herself: Heart, take comfort, take comfort! Even your desire had not gone this far.

(2.101) Susaṃgatā: Friend, you alone are praiseworthy, by whom the lord is so pleased.

(2.102) Vidūṣaka: Looking to the side: Ah, here another couch is seen, made of fresh lotus leaves and lotus fibers, indicating her love-stricken state.

(2.103) King: Well observed! For:

Faded on both sides from contact with her plump breasts and hips,
yet green in the middle, having found no contact with her slender waist,
this bed of lotus leaves, scattered in disarray
by the restless tosses of her limp creepers of arms, speaks of the slender woman's fever. || 36

Moreover:

This broad lotus leaf lying on her chest
does not so much tell of the inner state born of love,
as it speaks, by its two circles withered by intense fever,
of the fullness of her pair of breasts. || 37

(2.104) Vidūṣaka: Gesticulating picking up a lotus stalk: Ah, here is another—that very necklace of tender lotus fibers crushed by her plump breasts! Let your honor look.

(2.105) King: Taking it and placing it on his chest: O dull by nature!

Fallen from between the jars of her breasts,
why do you wither, O lotus stalk necklace?
How could there be room there for you,
even though made of fine threads? || 38