Vidúshaka.
Whatever your highness orders. (Walking about, he picks up something, and returns to him.) You asked for one colour; but I have brought you some pieces from which you may easily get the five colours.[1] Let your highness draw.
Jímútaváhana.
Well done, my friend. (He takes it and draws upon the stone, with rapture.) See, my friend, even the sight of this first outline of the beloved face gladdens me, as a digit of the new moon,—that face which is a very feast to the eyes, beautiful as its full unimpaired disc.
Vidúshaka (looking on with curiosity).
Though she is not in sight, her very form is depicted. Well, it is marvellous.
Jímútaváhana (with a smile).
O friend! the beloved is in my presence, brought before me by my wishes. If, as I continually see her, I draw her, where is the marvel?
Malayavatí (with tears).
O Chaturiká! I know well the end of this discourse. Come, then, we will go and look for Mitrávasu.
- ↑ The five colours.—The St Petersburg Dictionary, under "varna," gives a reference for these five colours to Kátyáyana's Śrauta-sútra, xxii. 9, 13, where they are described as—blue, yellow, red, brown, and variegated (?).
