1859.] Fragments of three early Hindu dramatists. 20 



1 Beauteous show the decorative lines of sandal traced on her brow 

 by her attendants ; and so the marks, — as it were plasters over wounds 

 from Cupid's shafts,— on the tract of her pale thin cheeks.' 



< How different, in operation, from other nooses, is the noose of a 

 sweetheart's arms ! Fastened about the neck, it imparts life ; loosen- 

 ed, it produces death.' 



TWT*TfP3% 5TOf^*f%T fw^fcT II % 



1 The cat laps the moonbeams in the bowl of water, thinking them 

 to be milk. The elephant imagines that the moonbeams piercing 

 through the intervals in the foliage of the trees, are esculent stalks 

 of the water-lily. The mistress, again, after dallying, grasps at the 

 moonbeams lying on the bed, taking them for her garments. Oh ! 

 the moon, intoxicated with radiance, bewilders the whole world.' 



^t*j s^ftr wf*7r ^f^fiT 



* This Stanza is in an upajdti measure consisting of alternate Indravajrds and 

 Upendravajrds. Such a metre is denominated Smriti. 

 t VaJctra. 

 X S'ikharini. 



§ Query ^f^^T^ ? — Eds. 

 II VasantatilaJc a. 



