Ratnavali 20.4

20.4

(2.25) Susaṃgatā | ai suṭṭhide | kiṃ ajja vi cittaphalaeṇa karissasi | eso vi dadhibhattalampaḍo edaṃ pañjaraṃ ugghāḍia duṭṭhavāṇaro adikkanto | esā khu medhāviṇī uḍḍīṇā aṇnado gacchadi | tā ehi | lahuṃ aṇusaramha |
(2.26) Sāgarikā | sahi | evvaṃ karemha |
iti parikrāmataḥ |
(2.27) Nepthye | hī hī bho | accharīaṃ accharīaṃ |
(2.28) Sāgarikā | sabhayaṃ vilokya | susaṃgade | jāṇīadi | puṇo vi duṭṭhavāṇaro jjevva āacchadi tti |
(2.29) Susaṃgatā | dṛṣṭvā vihasya | ai kādare | mā bhāāhi | bhaṭṭiṇo parivāsavattī khu eso ajja vasantao |
tataḥ praviśati vidūṣakaḥ |
(2.30) Vidūṣakaḥ | hī hī bho | accharīaṃ accharīaṃ | sāhu re sirikaṇḍadāsa dhammia sāhu |
(2.31) Sāgarikā saspṛham avalokayati |
(2.32) Susaṃgatā | sahi | kiṃ ediṇā diṭṭheṇa | dūrībhūdā khu sāriā | tā aṇusaramha |
iti niṣkrānte |
(2.33) Vidūṣakaḥ | sāhu re sirikaṇḍadāsa sāhu | jeṇa diṇṇametteṇa jjevva dohalaeṇa īdisī ṇomāliā saṃvuttā jeṇa ṇirantarubbhiṇṇakusumagucchacchādidaviḍavā uvahasantī via lakkhīadi devīparigahidaṃ māhavīladaṃ | tā jāva gadua piavaassassa ṇivedemi | parikramyāvalokya ca | eso kkhu piavaasso tassa dohalaassa laddhappaccaadāe parokkhaṃ pi taṃ ṇomāliaṃ paccakkhaṃ via kusumidaṃ pekkhanto harisupphullaloaṇo ido jjevva āacchadi | tā jāva ṇaṃ uvasappāmi | iti rājānaṃ prati gataḥ |
tataḥ praviśati yathānirdiṣṭo rājā |
(2.34) Rājā | saharṣaṃ |
uddāmotkalikāṃ vipāṇḍurarucaṃ prārabdhajṛmbhāṃ kṣaṇād
āyāsaṃ śvasanodgamair aviralair ātanvatīm ātmanaḥ |
adyodyānalatām imāṃ samadanāṃ nārīm ivānyāṃ dhruvaṃ

(2.25) Susaṃgatā: Ah, stubborn girl! What will you do even now with the picture board? That wicked monkey, fond of curd-rice, opened this cage and escaped! And this clever myna bird has flown off and is going somewhere else! So come, let us quickly follow it!
(2.26) Sāgarikā: Friend, let us do so.
They walk around.
(2.27) Behind the scenes: Ha ha! Wonderful, wonderful!
(2.28) Sāgarikā (looking in fear): Susaṃgatā, I think that wicked monkey is coming again!
(2.29) Susaṃgatā (looking and laughing): Ah, timid one! Do not fear. This is the noble Vasantaka, the king's companion in amusing pursuits.
Then enters the Vidūṣaka.
(2.30) Vidūṣaka: Ha ha! Wonderful, wonderful! Well done, pious Śrīkhaṇḍadāsa, well done!
(2.31) Sāgarikā looks on eagerly.
(2.32) Susaṃgatā: Friend, what use is looking at him? The myna bird has gone far away; so let us follow it.
Both exit.
(2.33) Vidūṣaka: Well done, Śrīkhaṇḍadāsa, well done! For by the mere application of the longing-ritual, such a navamālikā jasmine has been produced that, with its branches completely covered by newly burst clusters of flowers, it seems to mock the mādhavī creeper fostered by the queen! So let me go and inform my dear friend. (Walking around and looking) Indeed, my dear friend, because he has faith in that longing-ritual, though that navamālikā jasmine is out of sight, sees it as if it were directly before him in bloom; his eyes wide with joy, he is coming right here. So let me approach him. (He goes toward the king.)
Then enters the king as described.
(2.34) King (with joy):
With buds violently bursting forth, pale in luster, in a moment beginning to expand,
producing distress in herself by continuous emissions of sighs,
this creeper in the pleasure garden today, like another woman possessed by love,