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insulted by you, and I daresay your master, Mitrávasu, will be angry on hearing of it. So you had better pay respect to him.

Parasite.

Whatsoever Navamáliká orders. (After embracing the Vidúshaka.) O sir, you were joked with by me, thinking you were one of my relations. (Reeling about.) Am I really Śekharaka? Has any joke really been made? (Making his upper garment into a bundle, he offers it as a seat.) Let my relation take a seat here.

Vidúshaka (to himself).

Thank goodness! he has passed the violent stage of his drunkenness.

[He sits down.

Parasite.

O Navamáliká, do you take a seat at his side, so that I may pay my respects to you both at once.

[Servant Girl, with a laugh, sits down.

Parasite (taking up the drinking-cup).

Slave, fill this to the brim with wine.

[Slave gesticulates the filling of the cup.

Parasite (taking some flowers from the garland on his head, puts them into the cup, and kneeling on both knees, presents it to Navamáliká).

O Navamáliká, taste it, and pass it to him.