Parasite (letting go the Vidúshaka, and falling at the
feet of the Servant Girl).
Be be appeased, appeased, O Navamáliká!
Vidúshaka (to himself).
This seems a good opportunity to make off.
[Tries to get away.
Slave (grasping the Vidúshaka by his Brahmanical cord,
which is broken in the struggle).
Where are you off to, you tawny monkey?
[Binding him round the neck by the upper
garment, he drags him along.
Vidúshaka.
O lady, Navamáliká, be appeased. Make him release me.
Girl.
If you fall at my feet, with your head on the ground.
[She laughs.
Vidúshaka (with anger, and trembling).
Alas! How can I, who am a Brahman, and friend of the king of the Gandharvas, fall at the feet of the daughter of a slave?
Girl (shaking her finger at him, and smiling).
I will compel you to bow presently.—Get up, Śekharaka, get up. I am satisfied. (She embraces him.) But here the dear friend of the bridegroom has been