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CANDALENA
Candralekhā). The King admires her beauty in rapturous stanzas. She also feels regard for him. The Queen recognises her as noble-born. Vidūşaka hints that she would be the queen of a Cakravartin. The King expresses his deep passion for her. The Heroine also is affected with love, and finds the situation unbearable. The Queen, noting that she was new to the place, offers her a seat. The Heroine appreciates her as a matching Queen for the King.-Behind the stage, the Bard glorifies Mānaveda and announces the evening in a couple of descriptive stanzas. The Heroine recognises the King about whom she had heard from her father. The Queen loves her like a sister; and with King's ready consent, she conducts her to the harem while she (i. e., the Heroine ) looks at the King affectionately.-The King welcomes evening with slight dejection. He insists on the Jewel being respectfully preserved, when Vidūşaka tells him that it may by thrown away now because it has already served its purpose. Exeunt All.
Yavanikāntara II [Some days appear to have elapsed after the King saw the Heroine (II. 15.3). The action here begins in the morning, after the King has come to the hall of audience. At the end there is a reference to snāna-velā, and midday is announced by the bard. ] Scene 1 (II. 0. 1-). Asthāna-maņdapa or the hall of audience:
Enter the King and the female Chowrie-bearer. He remembers the Heroine, her charming limbs, the cupid and his armoury etc., and sings enamoured stanzas. The Chowrie-bearer, however, is trying to divert his attention
by describing the spring. Scene 2 (II. 8. 2-). Enters Vidūşaka to find the King pining with
passion for the Heroine. The King assures him that his partiality for the Queen continues. Vidūşaka narrates to him his mission thus: “Being appointed by you to get some news from the harem, I went thither early morning. On my way I met Tamālikā, with a statue in her hand, who avoided me. I too proceeded indifferently. The maidservants (described) asked me severally about the episode of the Emerald Park. Somehow I managed to escupe them and entered the harem where the Queen received me
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