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.
Slave (grasping the Vidúshaka by his Brahmanical cord,
which is broken in the struggle).
Where are you off to, you tawny monkey?
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.
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
