Ratnavali 20.8

20.8

kāminyā yad abhihitaṃ puraḥ sakhīnām |
tad bhūyaḥ śiśuśukaśārikābhir uktaṃ
dhanyānāṃ śravaṇapathātithitvam eti || 31 || (2.5)
(2.71) Vidūṣakaḥ | bho vaassa | edaṃ kaalīharaṃ | jāva pavisamha |
ity ubhau praviśataḥ |
(2.72) Vidūṣakaḥ | kiṃ edāe dāsīe dhīāe sāriāe | idha dāva mandamāruduvvellidabālakaalīdalasīdale silādale uvavisia muhuttaaṃ vīsamha |
(2.73) Rājā | yad abhirucitaṃ bhavate |
ity upaviśataḥ |
(2.74) rājā durvārāmityādi punaḥ paṭhati |
(2.75) Vidūṣakaḥ | pārśvato 'valokya | ediṇā khu uṇa ugghāḍidaduvāreṇa tāe sāriāe pañjareṇa hodavvaṃ |
(2.76) Rājā | vayasya | nirūpyatām |
(2.77) Vidūṣakaḥ | jaṃ bhavaṃ āṇavedi | parikramyāvalokya ca | eso vi cittaphalao | jāva ṇaṃ geṇhāmi | phalakaṃ gṛhītvā nirūpya ca saharṣam | bho vaassa | diṭṭhiā vaḍḍhasi |
(2.78) Rājā | sakautukam | vayasya | kim etat |
(2.79) Vidūṣakaḥ | bho | edaṃ khu taṃ jaṃ mae bhaṇidaṃ | tumaṃ jevva ettha ālihido | aṇṇadhā ko aṇṇo kusumacāvavavadeseṇa ṇiṇhūvīadi tti |
(2.80) Rājā | saharṣaṃ hastau prasārya | sakhe | upanaya |
(2.81) Vidūṣakaḥ | bho | ṇa edaṃ daṃsaissaṃ | sā vi kaṇṇaā idha jjevva ālihidā ciṭṭhadi | tā kiṃ pāritosieṇa viṇā īdisaṃ kaṇṇaāraaṇaṃ daṃsīadi |
(2.82) Rājā | kaṭakaṃ samarpayann eva balād gṛhītvā savismayaṃ paśyati | vayasya |
līlāvadhūtapadmākathayantī pakṣapātam adhikaṃ naḥ |
mānasam upaiti keyañcitragatā rājahaṃsīva || 32 || (2.8)
api ca |vidhāyāpūrvapūrṇendum asyā mukham abhūd dhruvam |
dhātā nijāsanāmbhojavinimīlanaduḥsthitaḥ || 33 || (2.9)

What a passionate woman has said before her friends,
spoken anew by young parrots and mynas,
comes as a guest to the ears of fortunate men. || 31

(2.71) Vidūṣaka: Ah, friend, here is the plantain bower. Let us enter.

Both enter.

(2.72) Vidūṣaka: What do we care about that wretched myna bird? Let us sit down here on this stone slab, cooled by the young plantain leaves swaying in the gentle breeze, and rest a while.

(2.73) King: As you please.

Both sit down.

(2.74) The King recites again: "Difficult to resist..." and so on.

(2.75) Vidūṣaka: Looking to the side: This with its door open must indeed be the cage of that myna bird.

(2.76) King: Friend, look carefully.

(2.77) Vidūṣaka: As my lord commands. Walking about and looking: Here is the picture board too! Let me take it. Taking the board, examining it, and with joy: Ah, friend, congratulations!

(2.78) King: With curiosity: Friend, what is this?

(2.79) Vidūṣaka: Ah, this is just what I said! You yourself are drawn here; otherwise, who else would be concealed under the pretext of Kusumacāpa?

(2.80) King: With joy, stretching out his hands: Friend, bring it here!

(2.81) Vidūṣaka: Ah, I will not show it. That maiden too is drawn standing right here. So could such a jewel of a maiden be shown without a reward?

(2.82) King: Handing over his bracelet, seizing it by force, he gazes with wonder: Friend,

Sportively shaking the lotus, expressing her deep affection for us,
who is this in the picture who enters our mind
like a royal swan entering Lake Mānasa? || 32

Moreover:

Having fashioned her face as an unprecedented full moon,
the Creator must surely have been distressed
by the closing of his own seat, the day-lotus! || 33