Ratnavali 23

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tataḥ praviśati madanikā |
(3.1) Madanikā | ākāśe | kosambie | avi diṭṭhā tae bhaṭṭiṇīsaāse kañcaṇamālā ṇa vā | ākarṇya | kiṃ bhaṇāsi | ko vi kālo tāe āacchia gadāe tti | tā kahiṃ dāṇiṃ pekkhissaṃ | agrato 'valokya | esā khu kañcaṇamālā ido jjevva āacchadi | tā jāva uvasappāmi |
tataḥ praviati kāñcanamālā |
(3.2) Kāñcanamālā | sotprāsam | sāhu re vasantaa sāhu | adisaido tae amaccajoandharāaṇao imāe saṃdhiviggahacintāe |
(3.3) Madanikā | upasṛtya sasmitam | halā kañcaṇamāle | kiṃ ajjavasantaeṇa kadaṃ jeṇa so evvaṃ salāhīadi |
(3.4) Kāñcanamālā | halā maaṇie | kiṃ tuha ediṇā pucchideṇa paoaṇaṃ | ṇa tumaṃ imaṃ rahassaṃ rakkhiduṃ pāresi |
(3.5) Madanikā | savāmi devīe caraṇehiṃ jai kassa vi purado paāsemi |
(3.6) Kāñcanamālā | jai evvaṃ tā suṇaṃ | ajja kkhu mae rāaulādo paḍiṇivattantīe cittasāliāduvāre ajjavasantaassa susaṃgadāe samaṃ ālāvo sudo |
(3.7) Madanikā | sakautukaṃ | sahi | kīdiso |
(3.8) Kāñcanamālā | jadhā | susaṃgade | ṇa kkhu sāariaṃ vajjia piavaassassa kiṃ pi assatthadāe kāraṇaṃ | tā cintehi ettha paḍiāraṃ ti |
(3.9) Madanikā | tado susaṃgadāe kiṃ bhaṇidaṃ |
(3.10) Kāñcanamālā | evvaṃ bhaṇidaṃ | ajja kkhu devīe cittaphalaavuttantasaṅkidāe sāariaṃ rakkhiduṃ mama hatthe samappaantīe jaṃ ṇevatthaṃ me pasādīkidaṃ teṇa jjevva viraidadevīvesaṃ sāariaṃ geṇhia ahaṃ pi kañcaṇamālāvesadhāriṇī bhavia padīse idha āgamissaṃ | tumaṃ pi cittasāliāduvāre maṃ paḍivālaissasi | tado māhavīladāmaṇḍave tāe saha bhaṭṭiṇo saṃgamo bhavissadi tti |
(3.11) Madanikā | hadāsā tumaṃ susaṃgade jā evvaṃ pariaṇavacchalaṃ deviṃ vañcesi |
(3.12) Kāñcanamālā | halā | tumaṃ dāṇiṃ kahiṃ patthidā |
(3.13) Madanikā | assatthasarīrassa bhaṭṭiṇo kusalavuttantaṃ jāṇiduṃ gadā tumaṃ ciraasi tti uttammantīe devīe pesida mhi |
(3.14) Kāñcanamālā | adiujjuā dāṇiṃ devī jā evvaṃ pattiāadi | parikramyāvalokya ca | eso kkhu bhaṭṭā assatthadāmiseṇa attaṇo maaṇāvatthaṃ pacchādaanto dantatoraṇavaḍabhīe uvaviṭṭho ciṭṭhadi | tā ehi | edaṃ vuttantaṃ bhaṭṭiṇīe ṇivedemha |
iti niṣkrānte |
iti praveśakaḥ |

(3.1) Madanikā. (Into the air) Kauśāmbikā! Did you see Kāñcanamālā by the mistress's side or not? (Listening) What do you say? "Some time ago she came and went." Where now shall I look for her? (Looking ahead) Here is Kāñcanamālā coming this very way. So I shall approach her.
Then enters Kāñcanamālā.
(3.2) Kāñcanamālā. (Sarcastically) Well done, Vasantaka, well done! You have surpassed even the minister Yaugandharāyaṇa in this concern for peace and war.
(3.3) Madanikā. (Approaching with a smile) Friend Kāñcanamālā! What has the noble Vasantaka done that he is praised so?
(3.4) Kāñcanamālā. Friend Madanikā, what is the use of your asking about this? You cannot keep this secret.
(3.5) Madanikā. I swear by the queen's feet if I reveal it before anyone!
(3.6) Kāñcanamālā. If so, listen. Today, returning from the royal palace, I overheard at the door of the picture-gallery the noble Vasantaka's conversation with Susaṃgatā.
(3.7) Madanikā. (Curiously) Friend, of what sort?
(3.8) Kāñcanamālā. Thus: "Susaṃgatā, there is indeed no cause for my dear friend's illness other than Sāgarikā; so think of a remedy for this."
(3.9) Madanikā. Then what was said by Susaṃgatā?
(3.10) Kāñcanamālā. This was said: "Today indeed the queen, suspicious about the matter of the picture-board, when placing Sāgarikā in my hand to guard her, bestowed upon me a costume; having taken Sāgarikā dressed in the queen's attire with that very dress, I too having put on Kāñcanamālā's attire shall come here in the evening. You too must await me at the door of the picture-gallery. Then in the māhavī-creeper bower the lord's union with her will take place."
(3.11) Madanikā. You wretched Susaṃgatā, who thus deceive the queen who is so fond of her attendants!
(3.12) Kāñcanamālā. Friend, where are you bound now?
(3.13) Madanikā. "You have delayed after having gone to learn of the lord's welfare whose body is indisposed"—having grown anxious with this thought, the queen has sent me.
(3.14) Kāñcanamālā. The queen is indeed very simple-minded, who believes thus! (Walking about and looking) Here indeed the lord, disguising his condition of lovesickness on the pretext of indisposition, remains seated on the ivory-arched balcony. So come, let us report this news to the mistress.
(Both exit.)
Thus ends the introductory scene.