Dutt, Romesh Chunder: The literature of Bengal: being an attempt to trace the progress of the national mind in its various aspects, as reflected in the nation’s literature from the earliest times to the present day ; with copious extracts from the best writers (Calcutta, 1877)

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• INTRiDTJCTION. XI

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with\i handful of Syamaka grains, and now will not
leave the footsteps of his protectress. i

SaJcuntala.—Why dost thou weep, tender fawn, for

•me, who must leave our common dwelling place 1 As

thou wast reared by me when thou hadst lost thy mother,
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who died so^n after thy birth, so will my foster-father

attend thee, when we are separated, with tender care.-

Return, potfr thing, return,-we must part. [She

bursts into tears.] '

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• Kanna.—Come, my beloved girl, give a parting em-
brace to me and to thy companions.

Sakuntala.— Must Anusuya ^and Priyamvada return
to the hermitage ?

Kanna.—They too, my child, mus* be suitably mar-
ried ; and it would not be proper for them yet to visit
.the city. Gautami will accompany thee.

Sakuntala [embracing him.] Removed from the bosom
of my father, like a young sandal tree rent from the hills
of Malaya, how shall I exist in a strange soil 1

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Sakuntala [again embracing Kanna.] When, my
father, oh ! when again shall I behold this asylum of
Virtue ? ,

Kanna.—Daughter, when thou shalt long have been
wedded, like this fruitful earth, to the pious monarch,
and shalt have borne him a son, whose car shall b*e
matchless in battle, thy lord shall transfer to him tb#