Who is Amrita? Sorrow of all sorrows!

Another fills your mind.

VIJAYA.

My mother’s name.

ANASHUYA [sings, coming out of the temple]

A sad, sad thought went by me slowly:

Sigh, O you little stars! O, sigh and shake your blue apparel!

The sad, sad thought has gone from me now wholly:

Sing, O you little stars! O sing, and raise your rapturous carol

To mighty Brahma, who has made you many as the sands,