Vidúshaka.
O lady! if this be so, my friend here is blameless. If you do not believe me, however, go yourself and look on the surface of the stone.
[The heroine, with joy and modesty, looking at the
hero, draws away her hand.
Jímútaváhana (with a smile).
I will not release it, until you have seen the object of my passion, drawn on the stone.
[All walk about.
Vidúshaka (having taken off the plantain leaf).
O lady! look. Behold the individual his heart is set on.
Malayavatí (having looked at it, aside, smiling).
O Chaturiká! it is as if my very self were drawn there.
Girl (looking at the picture and at the heroine).
O lady! why do you say, "It is as if myself were drawn there"? So exact is the likeness, that I do not know whether it is a reflection of you cast on the stone, or a drawing.
Malayavatí (with a smile).
Girl, I am put to shame by him, showing me drawn in a picture.