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.
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.
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.
