Śakoontalá, Or, The Lost Ring: An Indian DramaStephen Austin, 1855 - 251 pàgines |
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Sakoontala; Or the Lost Ring - An Indian Drama Translated Into English Monier Willams Previsualització no disponible - 2006 |
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Aditi Anasúyá arms arrow attendants beautiful Bharata blossom Bráhman called caste celebrated celestial CHAMBERLAIN chariot CHATURIKÁ child Compare note CONSTABLE Daityas Daksha daughter dear friend dear Sakoontalá deer demons descended divine drama e'en earth Enter Exeunt Exit eyes feeling FISHERMAN flowers GAUTAMÍ Gazing gods grove hallowed hand happy hear heart heaven hermitage hermits Hindú holy honour Indian Indra jasmine Kálidása KASYAPA King Dushyanta king's leave Listening Looking lord lotus maiden majesty marriage MÁTALI MÁTHAVYA may'st thou Menaká mighty mind moon mother nymph o'er offering ornament palace penance PRIEST Prince PRIYAMVADÁ PRIYAMVADA AND ANASUYA Puru Puru's rites royal sacred sage Kanwa SAKOONTALA Sanskrit SÁNUMATÍ Sarmishtha SÁRNGARAVA SCENE.-The SCENES sight sire Siva Smiling soul STEPHEN AUSTIN supposed Swarga sweet tears tell thee thine thy husband tree venerable verse VETRAVATI Victory Vishnu Viswamitra VOICE Walking WARDER wife women Yavana yonder young
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Pàgina 126 - As one late purified, the yet impure: — As one awake looks on the yet unwakened; Or as the freeman gazes on the thrall, So I regard this crowd of pleasure-seekers. SAKOONTALA [feeling a quivering sensation in her right eyelid, and suspecting a bad omen] . — Alas ! what means this throbbing of my right eye-lid?
Pàgina 54 - MATHAVYA : You will have to take up an intermediate position between the two, like King TriSanku, who was suspended between heaven and earth, because the sage Vis"wamitra commanded him to mount up to heaven, and the gods ordered him down again. KING : I am certainly very much perplexed. For here, Two different duties are required of me In widely distant places; how can I In my own person satisfy them both? Thus is my mind distracted and impelled In opposite direction^, like a stream That, driven...
Pàgina 216 - Aditi, This is the mighty hero, King Dushyanta, Protector of the earth; who, at the head Of the celestial armies of thy son, Does battle with the enemies of heaven. Thanks to his bow, the thunderbolt of Indra Rests from its work, no more the minister Of death and desolation to the world, But a mere symbol of divinity. ADITI : He bears in his noble form all the marks of dignity.
Pàgina 109 - This is it— Most puissant prince! we here present before thee One thou art bound to cherish and receive As thine own wife; yea, even to enthrone As thine own queen— worthy of equal love With thine imperial consorts. So much, Sire, We claim of thee as justice due to us, In virtue of our holy character— In virtue of thine...
Pàgina 32 - This is the only burden of our talk, while in the heat of the meridian sun we toil on from jungle to jungle, wandering about in the paths of the woods, where the trees afford us no shelter. Are we thirsty? We have nothing to drink but the foul water of some mountain stream, filled with dry leaves which give it a most pungent flavor.
Pàgina 19 - Asoka) is one of the most beautiful of Indian trees. Sir W. Jones observes that " the vegetable world scarce exhibits a richer sight than an ASoka-tree in full bloom. It is about as high as an ordinary cherry-tree. The flowers are very large, and beautifully diversified with tints of orange-scarlet, of pale yellow, and of bright orange, which form a variety of shades according to the age of the blossom.
Pàgina 108 - Chakravaka-bird, whom cruel fate dooms to nightly separation from her mate, calls to him in mournful notes from the other side of the stream, though he is only hidden from her view by the spreading leaves of the water-lily. Her cry is so piteous that I could almost fancy she was lamenting her hard lot in intelligible words.
Pàgina 136 - Say, rather, of the omnipotence of fate. I will mention another circumstance, which may yet convince thee. KING : By all means let me hear it at once.
Pàgina 177 - Oh! my dear friend, why were you so ill-natured as to tell me the truth ? While, all entranced, I gazed upon her picture, My loved one seemed to live before my eyes, Till every fibre of my being thrilled With rapturous emotion. Oh! 'twas cruel To dissipate the day-dream, and transform The blissful vision to a lifeless image. [Sheds tears.
Pàgina 54 - Forming two currents in its eddying course. [Reflecting.] Friend Mathavya, as you were my playfellow in childhood, the Queen has always received you like a second son; go you, then, back to her and tell her of my solemn engagement to assist these holy men. You can supply my place in the ceremony, and act the part of a son to the Queen. MATHAVYA : With the greatest pleasure in the world; but don't suppose that I am really coward enough to have the slightest fear of those trumpery demons. KING [smiling]...