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SCENE I Chitra

thou the god with the five darts, the Lord of Love?

Madana

I am he who was the first born in the heart of the Creator. I bind in bonds of pain and bliss the lives of men and women!

Chitra

I know, I know what that pain is and those bonds.—And who art thou, my lord?

Vasanta I am his friend—Vasanta—the King of the Seasons. Death and decrepitude would wear the world to the bone but