प्रियदर्शिका नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - चतुरङ्क शास्त्रीय नाटिका सान्वय सटीक)

Act II. ] 9 pp. 12–13.
VIDU.—(Approaching) Hail to your Honour! May
you prosper!
KING.—(Looking at him) Vasantaka, for what do you
appear to be delighted!
VIDU.—Because the Queen is going to honour a
Brāhmaṇa.
KING.—If so, how does it benefit you?
VIDU.—(With pride) Oh, such a Brāhmaṇa, indeed, that
I get the Svastivāchana-present first from the Queen in
the palace crowded with thousands of Brāhmaṇas, vers-
ed in four, five or even six Vedas.
KING.—(Laughing) Your Brāhmaṇaship (Vedic scho-
larship) is shown by the number of the Vedas (mention-
ed by you). Come then, great Brāhmaṇa. To the
shower-house garden itself we go now.
VIDU.—As your Majesty commands.
KING.—Lead the way.
VIDU.—Come, oh! Let us go. (Walking round and
looking on) O friend, see, the loveliness of the shower-
house-garden, the surface of the stone-slab in which is
soft on account of the various kinds of flowers ceaseless-
ly falling upon it, wherein the bunches of the Bakula
and the Jasmine flowers are broken by the weight of the
bees buried in the fragrance, where the cups of the
Bandhūka flowers are opened by the breezes richly
charged with the perfume of lotuses, and where the light
of the sun is obscured by the dense tamāla trees.
KING.—Friend, you have well described it. For, here,
By the stems of the Śephalikā flowers (scattered
about) the ground appears as if covered with small bits
of corals; the scent of the Saptachhada flowers at once
gives rise to the false idea of its being the odour of the
rut of elephants; and these bees here, having the colour
of their bodies tawny with (or having the tawny un-
guents of) the thick mass of pollen dropped from the
expanded lotuses, and intoxicated with the drafts of
liquor (honey), are humming something in indistinct
accents. (3).