SURANGAMA.
What can be seen in the hide-and-seek of darkness and light? There the wind is wild and restless, everything is dance and swift movement—will it not puzzle the eyes?
KING.
The Queen is curious to search me out.
SURANGAMA.
Curiosity will have to come back baffled and in tears!
SONG.
Ah, they would fly away, the restless vagrant eyes, the wild birds of the forest!
But the time of their surrender will come, their flights hither and thither will be ended when
The music of enchantment will pursue them and pierce their hearts.
Alas, the wild birds would fly to the wilderness!
III
[Before the Pleasure Gardens. Enter AVANTI, KOSHALA, KANCHI, and other KINGS]
AVANTI.
Will the King of this place not receive us?
KANCHI.
What manner of governing a country is this? The King is having a festival in a forest, where even the meanest and commonest people can have easy access!
KOSHALA.
We ought to have had a separate place set apart and ready for our reception.