SUDARSHANA.
Then this is—
SURANGAMA.
The same: he is coming with the King of Kanchi.
SUDARSHANA.
Do you know his name?
SURANGAMA.
His name is Suvarna.
SUDARSHANA.
It is he, then. I thought, “I am lying here like waste refuse and offal, which no one cares even to touch.” But my hero is coming now to release me. Did you know Suvarna?
SURANGAMA.
When I was at my father’s home, in the gambling den
SUDARSHANA.
No, no, I won’t hear anything of him from you. He is my own hero, my only salvation. I shall know him without your telling stories about him. But just see, a nice man your King is! He did not care to come to rescue me from even this degradation. You cannot blame me after this. I could not have waited for him all my life here, toiling ignominiously like a bondslave. I shall never have your meekness and submissiveness.
XI
[Encampment]
KANCHI.
[To Kanya Kubja’s Messenger.] Tell your King that he need not receive us exactly as his guests. We are on our way back to our kingdoms, but we are waiting to rescue Queen Sudarshana from the servitude and degradation to which she is condemned here.