Ratnavali 30.4

30.4

(4.124) Rājā | sasaṃbhramam utthāya | katham | antaḥpure 'gniḥ | kaṣṭam | devī vāsavadattā dagdhā | hā priye vāsavadatte |
(4.125) Vāsavadattā | parittāadu parittāadu ajjautto |
(4.126) Rājā | katham | atisaṃbhramād ihasthāpi devī nopalakṣitā | devi | samāśvasihi samāśvasihi |
(4.127) Vāsavadattā | ajjautta | ṇa attaṇo kāraṇeṇa evvaṃ bhaṇāmi | esā khu mae ṇigghiṇāe idha saṃjamidā sāariā vivajjadi | tā parittāadu ajjautto |
(4.128) Rājā | katham | sāgarikā vipadyate | devi | eṣa gacchāmi |
(4.129) Vasubhūtiḥ | deva | kim akāraṇa eva pataṅgavṛttiḥ kriyate |
(4.130) Bābhravyaḥ | deva | yuktam āha vasubhūtiḥ |
(4.131) Vidūṣakaḥ | rājānam uttarīye gṛhītvā | bho | mā khu sāhasaṃ karehi |
(4.132) Rājā | uttarīyam ākarṣan | dhiṅ mūrkha | sāgarikā vipadyate | kim adyāpi prāṇā dhāryante | dhūmābhibhavaṃ nāṭayan |
virama virama vahne muñca dhūmānubandhaṃ
prakaṭayasi kim uccair arciṣāṃ cakravālam |
virahahutabhujāhaṃ yo na dagdhaḥ priyāyāḥ
pralayadahanabhāsā tasya kiṃ tvaṃ karoṣi || 79 || (4.16)
(4.133) Vāsavadattā | kadhaṃ | mama dukkhakāriṇīe vaaṇādo evvaṃ ajjhavasidaṃ ajjautteṇa | tā ahaṃ pi aṇugamissaṃ |
(4.134) Vidūṣakaḥ | parikrāmann agrato bhūtvā | ahaṃ pi padhovadesao homi |
(4.135) Vasubhūtiḥ | katham | praviṣṭa eva jvalanaṃ vatsarājaḥ | tan mamāpi dṛṣṭarājaputrīvipatter yuktam ātmānam āhutīkartum |
(4.136) Bābhravyaḥ | sāsram | hā mahārāja | kim idam akāraṇa eva bharatakulaṃ saṃśayatulām āropitam | atha vā kiṃ pralāpena | aham api bhaktisadṛśam ācarāmi |

(4.124) King: Rising in agitation. How? Fire in the inner palace! Alas! Queen Vāsavadattā is burned! Ah, beloved Vāsavadattā!

(4.125) Vāsavadattā: Rescue her, rescue her, noble lord!

(4.126) King: How? Out of extreme confusion, the queen, though standing right here, was not noticed! Queen, take heart, take heart!

(4.127) Vāsavadattā: Noble lord, I do not say this on my own account. Here indeed Sāgarikā, bound here by merciless me, is perishing! So let my noble lord rescue her!

(4.128) King: How? Sāgarikā is perishing? Queen, here I go!

(4.129) Vasubhūti: Lord, why act like a moth without any reason?

(4.130) Bābhravya: Lord, Vasubhūti speaks rightly.

(4.131) Jester: Grasping the king by his upper garment. Friend, do not commit such a reckless act!

(4.132) King: Pulling away his upper garment. Curse you, fool! Sāgarikā is perishing; why is breath still kept? Gesticulating being overcome by smoke.
Desist, desist, O fire! Release your trail of smoke! / Why do you display a high circle of flames? / To me, who was not consumed by the fire of separation from my beloved, / what can you do with the brilliance of the fire of cosmic dissolution? || 79

(4.133) Vāsavadattā: How? At the word of me, a bringer of grief, the noble lord has resolved thus! Then I too will follow him.

(4.134) Jester: Walking around, going in front. I too will be the guide of the path.

(4.135) Vasubhūti: How? The King of Vatsa has indeed entered the flames! Then it is fitting for me too, having witnessed the princess's death, to make myself an oblation.

(4.136) Bābhravya: In tears. Ah, great king! Why has the lineage of Bharata been placed on the balance of doubt for no reason at all? Or rather, what is the use of lamentation? I too shall act in a manner worthy of my devotion.