[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Drama (rūpaka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays) › [Udayana and other classical court plays](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.udayana) › [Ratnavali](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.udayana.ratnavali) › 30.3 # Ratnavali 30.3 Ratnāvalī 30.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [30.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.udayana.ratnavali.30.3) (4.113) Bābhravyaḥ | apavārya | amātya | ciram api sthitvā yat kathanīyaṃ tad idānīm eva kathyatām | (4.114) Vasubhūtiḥ | sāsram | na śakyaṃ nivedayitum | tathāpy eṣa kathayāmi mandabhāgyaḥ | deva | yāsau siṃhaleśvareṇa svaduhitā ratnāvalī nāmāyuṣmatī vāsavadattāṃ dagdhām upaśrutya devāya pūrvaprārthitā satī dattā | (4.115) Rājā | apavārya | devi | kim idam alīkaṃ tvanmātulāmātyaḥ kathayati | (4.116) Vāsavadattā | ajjautta | ahaṃ pi ṇa jāṇāmi | ko ettha aliaṃ mantedi tti | (4.117) Vidūṣakaḥ | tado tāe kiṃ saṃvuttaṃ | (4.118) Vasubhūtiḥ | sā ca yuṣmadantikam ānīyamānā yānabhaṅgāt sāgare nimagnā | iti rudann adhomukhas tiṣṭhati | (4.119) Vāsavadattā | sāsram | hā hadam hi mandabhāiṇī | hā bahiṇie | kahiṃ si | dehi me paḍivaaṇaṃ | (4.120) Rājā | devi | samāśvasihi samāśvasihi | duḥkhagrahā gatir daivasya | vahanabhaṅgapatitotthitau nanv etāv eva te nidarśanam | iti vasubhūtibābhravyau darśayati | (4.121) Vāsavadattā | ajjautta | jujjadi edaṃ | kudo uṇa me ettiāiṃ bhāadheāiṃ | (4.122) Rājā | apavārya | bābhravya | kathaya | kim etat | (4.123) Nepathye kalakalaḥ | harmyāṇāṃ hemaśṛṅgaśriyam iva nicayair arciṣām ādadhānaḥ sāndrodyānadrumāgraglapanapiśunitātyantatīvrābhitāpaḥ | kurvan krīḍāmahīdhraṃ sajalajaladharaśyāmalaṃ dhūmapātair eṣa ploṣārtayoṣijjana iha sahasaivotthito 'ntaḥpure 'gniḥ || 77 || (4.14) api ca |devīdāhapravādo 'yaṃ yo 'bhūl lāvaṇake purā | kariṣyann iva taṃ satyaṃ manye 'gnir ayam utthitaḥ || 78 || (4.15) > (4.113) Bābhravya: Aside. Minister, what must be told even after waiting long, let that be told right now. > > (4.114) Vasubhūti: In tears. It cannot be told. Even so, this ill-fated man speaks: Lord, that own daughter of the Lord of Siṃhala, named Ratnāvalī, having heard that the long-lived Vāsavadattā was burned, having been asked for earlier, was given to my lord— > > (4.115) King: Aside. Queen, why does your maternal uncle's minister speak this untruth? > > (4.116) Vāsavadattā: Noble lord, I too do not know who speaks an untruth here. > > (4.117) Jester: Then what happened to her? > > (4.118) Vasubhūti: And while being brought to your presence, through the wreck of the ship she sank into the ocean. Weeping, he stands with downcast face. > > (4.119) Vāsavadattā: In tears. Ah, I am undone, unfortunate that I am! Ah, little sister, where are you? Give me an answer! > > (4.120) King: Queen, take heart, take heart! The course of fate is hard to comprehend. Are not these two very men, who fell from a shipwreck and survived, your proof? He points to Vasubhūti and Bābhravya. > > (4.121) Vāsavadattā: Noble lord, that is right. But whence should I have such good fortune? > > (4.122) King: Aside. Bābhravya, speak! What is this? > > (4.123) A clamour behind the scenes. > Lending the splendour of golden peaks to the palaces, as it were, with masses of flames, / its exceedingly fierce heat indicated by the shrivelling of the tops of dense garden trees, / making the pleasure mountain dark with showers of smoke like clouds bearing water, / here a fire, painful with burns to womenfolk, has suddenly arisen in the inner palace! || 77 > And moreover: > That rumour of the queen's burning which occurred in Lāvaṇaka formerly— / as if about to make that true, I think this fire has arisen! || 78 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 30.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.udayana.ratnavali.30.2) - [Next: 30.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.udayana.ratnavali.30.4) - [Up: 30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.udayana.ratnavali.30) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.udayana.ratnavali~en-mt.30.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.udayana.ratnavali.30.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.udayana.ratnavali.30.3) · Pramāṇa