y condition.

_Maitreya._ But gentlemen! He adorned the city of Ujjayini with
mansions, cloisters, parks, temples, pools, and fountains, and he
should be mad enough to commit such a crime--and for a mere
trifle? [_Wrathfully._] You offspring of a loose wench, you brother-in-law
of the king, Sansthanaka, you libertine, you slanderer, you
buffoon, you gilded monkey, say it before me! This friend of mine
does n't even draw a flowering jasmine creeper to himself, to gather
the blossoms, for fear that a twig might perhaps be injured.
How should he commit a crime like this, which heaven and earth
call accursed? Just wait, you son of a bawd! Wait till I split your
head into a hundred pieces with this staff of mine, as crooked as
your heart.

_Sansthanaka._ [_Angrily._] Lishten to that, gentlemen! I have a
quarrel, or a lawshuit, with Charudatta. What right has a man
with a pate that looks like a caret, to shplit my head into a hundred
pieces? Not much! You confounded rashcal! [_Maitreya raises
his staff and repeats his words. Sansthanaka rises angrily and strikes
him. Maitreya strikes back. During the scuffle the jewels fall from
Maitreya's girdle._]

_Sansthanaka._ [_Picks up the jewels and examines them. Excitedly._]
Look, gentlemen, look! These are the poor girl's jewels! [_Pointing
to Charudatta._] For a trifle like thish he murdered her, and killed
her too. [_The magistrates all bow their heads._]

_Charudatta._ [_Aside to Maitreya._]

'T is thus my fate would vent its gall,
That at this moment they should fall,
These gems--and with them, I. 31

_Maitreya._ But why don't you simply tell the truth?

P. 250.1]

_Charudatta._ My friend,

The king perceives with blinded eye,
Nor on the truth that eye will bend;
Though telling all, I cannot fly
A wretched and inglorious end. 32

_Judge._ Alas! Alas!

With Mars strives Jupiter, and dies;
Beside them both there seems to rise
A comet-planet[84] in the skies. 33

_Gild-warden and Clerk._ [_Looking at the casket. To Vasantasena's
mother._] Madam, pray examine this golden casket attentively, to
see whether it be the same or not.

_Mother._ [_Examining the casket._] It is similar, but not the same.

_Sansthanaka._ Oh, you old bawd! You confessh it with your eyes,
and deny it with your lips.

_Mother._ Away, you scoundrel!

_Gild-w