Note 48 — VI KĀLIDĀSA
Reading edition
‘How strange the difference between this pain that wrings the heart, and thy bow to all seeming so harmless. That which is most sweet and most bitter at once is assuredly found in thee, O God of Love.’ Agnimitra is ready enough with a pun, when Mālavikā, on being bidden to show fearlessly her love towards him, slyly reminds him that she has seen him as terrified as herself of the queen:48