[S']AKOONTALÁ.

What! is it not enough to have been betrayed by this perfidious man? Must you also forsake me, regardless of my tears and lamentations?

[Attempts to follow them.

GAUTAMÍ. [Stopping.

My son [S']árngarava, see! [S']akoontalá is following us, and with tears implores us not to leave her. Alas! poor child, what will she do here with a cruel husband who casts her from him?

[S']ÁRNGARAVA.

[Turning angrily towards her.

Wilful woman, dost thou seek to be independent of thy lord?

[S']AKOONTALÁ trembles with fear.

[S']akoontalá!