The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c10.s5.24

c10.s5.24

‘Hard-hearted maiden, lay aside the anger that doth impede our joy; death entereth on his register every day as it goeth, disdainful one; not meet is this in thy tender youth, for love is fleeting; rather spend in love the time we lose in this quarrel.' The simple figures of speech are freely used by Bhāsa, and he shows as usual a marked fondness for the accumulation of similar sounds, as in *sajalajaladhara*, *sanīranīrada*, or *kuladayam hanti* madena nārī: kūladvayaṃ kṣubdhajalā nadīva. More interesting are instances of his power, which is specially manifest in the *Svapnavāsavadattā* and the *Pratimāṇāṭaka*, of expressing strong emotion adequately and forcibly. Thus we have the indignant upbraiding of Kaikeyī by the angry Bharata:¹