Malavikagnimitram by Kalidasa

Author:Kalidasa
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789351187219
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2014-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

GAUTAMA: Things will clear up now. I gave Bakulavalika your love message, and isn’t that her approaching this secluded spot?

AGNIMITRA: Does she remember my request?

GAUTAMA: How could a servant girl forget your important message? I still remember it all.

Enter Bakulavalika holding an anklet.

BAKULAVALIKA: How are you, my friend?

MALAVIKA: O Bakulavalika, welcome friend! Sit down.

BAKULAVALIKA (sitting down): Truly, my dear, you’ve been appointed by the queen because of your beauty. 57 Give me your foot so I can decorate it with an anklet and red lac.

MALAVIKA (to herself): O heart, don’t get excited by such praise. How do I get out of this? I could just die! 58

BAKULAVALIKA: Why do you hesitate? The queen is very worried that the golden ashoka won’t bloom.

AGNIMITRA: So this is all about the ashoka tree!

GAUTAMA: What?! Don’t you know that the queen only makes her dress up for a reason?

MALAVIKA (extending her foot): Forgive me, my friend.

BAKULAVALIKA: My dear, you are like my own body. (Decorates her foot with gestures.)

AGNIMITRA: Look, my friend, at the fresh red streak

smeared on my beloved’s toes,

like the first blooming blossoms

on the tree of Love that Hara burnt. 59 //11//

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