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

Wilt iltott the hlotnn of the springtide the fruit of the year that cloth Wilt thoti 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 the interval 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. [...] [Moreover (14a) With waves of dikes that ripple in the wind roots of branching trees are wash'd ; Varied the red of leaflets in their gleam by the butter-smoke's upflow ; Here hitherwards on grounds of outer wood where the sprouts of turf are gash'd All free of dread the little ones of stags slowly slowly graze and go.3 Char. [...] 0 my Saundala this is the self-chosen bride of the Mango-tree named [and married to the Mangtree] by you the Newjasmine-creeper Forest-Moonlight. [...] My lady [I am versed in the Holy Writ ;] he whom the Punt 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 5.4„ ar.