Note 73 — IV BHĀSA
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Bhāsa’s power of depicting irony is specially prominent in the Svapnavāsavadattā,73 where Vāsavadattā is driven to weave the garland for the new queen’s marriage, on the score of her skill in this art. Rāvaṇa shows the heads which he represents as those of Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa to Sītā, only to hear the announcement that his son is slain in the battle, by the very two whose death he has feigned.74 Effective is the contrast between Vālin’s splendour and his fall in his son An̄gada’s lament:75