Sabitri. How did you know this? That name is known to no one. My father-in-law said, when my daughter-in-law gets a child, I shall give it (if male) the name "Nobin Madhab." Now the child is born, I shall give it that name. My husband always said, When shall the child be born, and I shall call him by the name "Nobin Madhab" (weeps). If he had been alive, he would have satisfied that desire on this day. (Aside, a sound). There, the musicians are coming. (Claps with her hands).
Soirindri. Bou, go into that room, the physician is coming.
Enter Sadhu Churn and the Physician.
Sadhu. Our madam has risen up.
Sabitri. (Weeps.) Is it because that my husband is not here that you have left your drums at home.
Aduri. She has no understanding; she is become entirely insane. She called that dead elder Haldar "My infant child," and chastised the young Haldar's wife, calling her an European's wife. That young woman is weeping severely. Again, she is calling you musicians.
Sadhu. So great a misfortune has now come to pass!
Physician. (Sitting near Nobin). It is very probable and also according to the Nidana[1] that while she is not taking food for the death of her husband, and while she has seen this miserable condition of her dearest son, she should become thus. It is necessary to see her pulse one. Madam, let me observe they pulse once. (Stretching out his hand towards her).
- ↑ A treatise on the sciene of medicine.
