रत्नावली नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - शास्त्रीय नाटिका रत्न सम्पूर्ण ४ अङ्क सान्वय सटीक)

तृतीयोঽঙ্কঃ 231
আমি বসন্তককে তাঁহার সংবাদ আনিবার জন্য প্রেরণ করিয়াছি; সে এতক্ষণ দেরী
করিতেছে কেন ?
Eng. Trans. (Then enter the King seated gesticulating
his love-sick state)
King. Endure, my heart, for the present, the affliction
caused by the fire of love. There is no means for its abatement
at present and why do you pine for her again in vain? Fool
as I was, I had then somehow grasped her hand as cool in
touch as the thick sandal-paste and held it for long, but
could not manage to place it on you at that time. 1.
Oh, what a great wonder!—The mind is unsteady in its
very nature and unperceivable (through eyes); inspite of that
how could the god of love pierce this (heart) of mine
simultaneously with all his arrows? 2.
(Looking up) O god with the flowery bow! It has
become well-known in the world that the mind-born god has
only five arrows (lit., the five arrows of the mind-born deity
are fixed) and persons, generally of my type to be aimed
at with them, are without number. But now, in you this
(usual state of things) is found to be reversed, as the helpless
lover (like me) alone, being pierced with your countless arrows,
is being led to the state of (being dissolved into) five elements
(i. e., death). 3.
(Reflecting) Yet I do not think so much for myself reduced
to such a (pitiable) condition, as much I do for that poor
Ságariká who then came within the sight of the Queen who
suppressed within her the accumulated (smouldering)
wrath. For—
She turns down her countenance, thinking 'iny (secret)
has been known to all'; observing two of her companions in
conversation, she fancies the subject of the talk to be about
her own self; and if her friends be smiling, she displays