Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus - Translated from Original Sanskrit

The most copious of these is the work of JAGADDHARA the son of RATNADHARA described as a learned teacher the prince of Pandits and poets and administrator of law ; the other is by royal hand the ildjddhirdja MALANICA. [...] MAY the trepidations of Vintiyaka's* countenance attended by the cry of terror long preserve you! those trepidations which at the dance of gairipatilt proceeded from the entrance into his nostrils of the Lord of serpents with contracted hood frightened at the cry of Kumara's$ peacocks upon hearing the sound of the tabor struck by the delighted Nandi § and whence the regions were filled with [...] May the tresses interwoven with a circular garland of sea pents for flowers where the waters of the Mandakini are floing over the lower chaplet of skulls worn in the crest luminous with the light of the eye of the forehead sparking like light ning and of which the young moon is confounded with the point of the ketaka flower preserve thee 1 'If Guido. [...] The peacock is supposed to be particularly delighted by the approach of the rainy season and the bird of 'Lit-Wheys mistaking the deep sound of the drum for the rolling of thunder indicative of a storm screams with delight. [...] There is in the South and in the province of Vidobha a city named Padtnanagaa where dwelt certain Bramans of the family of Kaigapa and followers of the Tittiri portion of the Vedas according to the teacher Charaia; taking precedence at festivals maintaining the five fires observers of religious obligations drinkers of the Santa juice possessing names of note and learned in the Vedas