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Kalidasa. Sacontala; or, The Fatal Ring
Sacontala; or, The Fatal Ring
Table of Contents
SACONTALA;
THE FATAL RING
Cálidás
SIR WILLIAM JONES
ACT I
Scene—A Forest
ACT II
Scene—A Plain, with royal pavilions on the skirt of the forest
ACT III
Scene—The Hermitage in a Grove. The Hermit's Pupil bearing consecrated grass
ACT IV
Scene—A Lawn before the Cottage. The two damsels are discovered gathering flowers
ACT V
ACT VI
Scene—A Street
ACT VII
Dushmanta with Mátali in the car of Indra, supposed to be above the clouds
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Kālidāsa
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Sac. This impudent bee will not rest. I will remove to another place.—[stepping aside and looking round.]—Away! away! He follows me wherever I go. Deliver me, oh! deliver me from this distress.
Dushm. [advancing hastily.] Ah! while the race of Puru govern the world, and restrain even the most profligate, by good laws well administered, has any man the audacity to molest the lovely daughters of pious hermits?
