Shatuntala and Her Keepsake (Rendered from the Sanskrit Play of Kalidasa)

Wilt thou the bloom of the 'springtide the fruit of the year that dot: wither ? Wilt thou what charms and pleases? [...] Words or passages found in the Devanagari recension alone are marked [D ]. The directions within brackets [ ] as to time place and action at the beginning of each Act as to theinterval between Acts or between a Prelude or Induction and an Act and as to the arrangement of scenes within the Acts are entirely the translator's own. [...] ( [ THIS SAID GOES OUT AT THE END OF THE BENISON.) [Then enters the Stage-Meager.) The Stage-Manager. [...] 0 my Saundala! this is the self-chosen bride of the Mango-tree named [and married to the Mango-tree] by you the Newjasmine-creeper Forest-Moonlight. [...] My lady (I am versed in the Holy Writ ;) he whom the Puru king employed in the office of keeping the law [in the town] I am he come to this pious forest [by way of seeing the holy hermitage] to know if the rites* of sagts are free from obstacles.24 SARUNTALA.