Śakoontalá, Or, The Lost Ring: An Indian DramaDodd, Mead, 1885 - 236 Seiten |
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Aditi arms arrow Aśoka attend beautiful blossom Brahmá Bráhman called caste celebrated celestial CHAMBERLAIN chariot CHATURIKÁ child Compare note CONSTABLE Daityas Daksha daughter dear friend dear Śakoontalá deer demons descendant divine drama e'en earth Enter Exeunt Exit eyes feeling fire FISHERMAN flowers GAUTAMÍ Gazing gods grove hallowed hand happy hear heart heaven hermitage hermits Hindú holy honour husband India Indian Indra jasmine Kálidása KASYAPA King Dushyanta King's leave Listening Looking lord lotus maiden majesty marriage MÁTALI MÁTHAVYA may'st thou Menaká mighty mind moon mother nymph o'er offering palace penance play present PRIEST Prince PRIYAMVADÁ AND ANASÚYÁ Puru Puru's Queen religious ring rites royal sacred sage Kanwa SAKOONTALÁ Sanskrit SÁNUMATÍ SÁRNGARAVA SCENES sight Sire Śiva Smiling soul Swarga sweet tears tell thee thine tree venerable verse VETRAVATÍ Victory Vishnu Viśwámitra VOICE Walking WARDER wife women Yavana yonder young
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Seite vii - Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine ? I name thee, O Sakuntala,- and all at once is) said.
Seite 228 - They are a dwarfish kind of monster, with the body of a man and the head of a horse, and are otherwise called Kinnara.
Seite 90 - KANWA: [Repeats a prayer in the metre of the Rig-veda] Holy flames, that gleam around Every altar's hallowed ground; Holy flames, whose frequent food Is the consecrated wood, And for whose encircling bed, Sacred Kusa-grass is spread; Holy flames, that waft to heaven Sweet oblations daily given, Mortal guilt to purge away, Hear, oh hear me, when I pray — Purify my child this day!
Seite 74 - Sakoontala under our care; and it may be doubted whether, in the society of his royal consorts, he will not forget all that has taken place in this hermitage of ours.
Seite 181 - A child, is it? closely attended k by two holy women. His disposition seems anything but child-like. See, He braves the fury of yon lioness Suckling its savage offspring, and compels The angry whelp to leave the half-sucked dug, Tearing its tender mane in boisterous sport. Enter a CHILD, attended by Two WOMEN of the 'hermitage, in the manner described, CHILD.
Seite 65 - KING. [Advancing hastily towards her. Nay, Love does but warm thee, fair maiden, — thy frame Only droops like the bud in the glare of the noon ; But me he consumes with a pitiless flame, As the beams of the day-star destroy the pale moon. PRIYAMVADA AND ANASUYA. [Looking at him joyfully, and rising to salute him. Welcome, the desire of our hearts, that so speedily presents itself ! [SAKOONTALA makes an effort to rise.
Seite 5 - Their sprightly ears, but now erect, bent low; Themselves unsullied by the circling dust That vainly follows on their rapid course. KING: [Joyously] In good sooth, the horses seem as if they would outstrip the steeds of Indra and the Sun.
Seite 192 - Fairest of women, banish from thy mind The memory of my cruelty; reproach The fell delusion that o'erpowered my soul, And blame not me, thy husband; 'tis the curse Of him in whom the power of darkness reigns, That he mistakes the gifts of those he loves For deadly evils. Even though a friend Should wreathe a garland on a blind man's brow, Will he not cast it from him as a serpent? SAKOONTALA : Rise, my own husband, rise. Thou wast not to blame. My own evil deeds, committed in a former state of being,...
Seite 29 - This is the only burden of our talk, while in the heat of the meridian sun we toil on from jungle to jungle, wandering about in the paths of the woods, where the trees afford us no shelter. Are we thirsty? We have nothing to drink but the foul water of some mountain stream, filled with dry leaves which give it a most pungent flavor.
Seite 215 - The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.