{"id":202,"date":"2013-07-13T01:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=202"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:26:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:34","slug":"30-prince-of-edur-act-1-sc-3-vol-07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07\/30-prince-of-edur-act-1-sc-3-vol-07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07","title":{"rendered":"-30_Prince of Edur Act-1 Sc-3.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nSCENE III<\/b><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/b><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n

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\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nThe forest near Dongurh.
\nBappa, Sungram, Prithuraj.<\/i><\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>APPA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is the secret friend from whom in childhood
\nI learned to wing my mounting thoughts aloft
\nHigh as an eagle’s flight. I know the hand,
\nThough yet his name is hid from me.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tS<\/font>UNGRAM <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLet’s hear<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe very wording.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>APPA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n"To the Sun’s child, from Edur.
\nComol Cumary, Edur’s princess, goes
\nWith her fair sister and a knot of lances
\nTo Dongurh. Bappa, young lion of the hills,
\nBe as the lion in thy ranging; prey
\nUpon earth’s mightiest, think her princesses
\nMeant only for thy spoil and serving-girls,
\nHer kings thy subjects and her lands thy prey.
\nDare greatly and thou shalt be great; despise
\nApparent death and from his lifted hand
\nOf menace pluck thy royal destinies
\nBy warlike violence. Thus thy fathers did
\nFrom whose great blood thou springest, child of Kings.
\nThy friend in Edur."<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tS<\/font>UNGRAM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWrites he that ? The child of Kings!
\nHe never spoke so plainly of your birth
\nTill now.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tP<\/font>RITHURAJ <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA kindling hint to fire our blood!<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 756<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nTwo princesses and only a knot of swords
\nFor escort? The gods themselves arrange this for us.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tS<\/font>UNGRAM<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBappa, you are resolved to court this peril?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tP<\/font>RITHURAJ <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDoubt you ? Think how ’twill help our treasury.
\nThe palanquins alone must be a mint
\nOf money and the girls’ rich ornaments
\nPurchase half Rajasthan.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tS<\/font>UNGRAM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe immediate gain’s
\nPrincely, nor the mere capture perilous.
\nBut afterwards the armed wrath of Edur
\nDescends upon us in a thunder and whirlwind.
\nAre we yet strong enough to bear the shock ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tP<\/font>RITHURAJ <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhy, let it come. I shall rejoice to feel
\nThe true and dangerous bite of war at last,
\nNot always play the mountain cateran’s part,
\nTo skulk among the hills and only assail
\nThe weak and timid, or butcher distant force
\nWith arrows. I long for open shocks of fight
\nAnd glorious odds and all the world for audience.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>APPA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSungram, I do not rashly take this step,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBut with fixed policy. Unless we break<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEdur’s supreme contempt for our annoyance,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nHow can we bring him to the difficult hills ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSo must we take the open where our Bheels<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nWill scatter from the massed Rajpoot swords<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nNor face their charging horsemen. But if we capture<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTheir princess, inconsiderate rage will hurl them<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 757<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nInto our very fastnesses to wear<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nTheir strength out under our shafts. Then will I seize<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAt the right moment, they being few and weary,<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEdur by force or guile and hold it fast<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThough all the warlike world come up against me.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tSUNGRAM <\/font><\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWith Bheels?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>APPA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI will invite all Rajpoot swords
\nThat now are masterless and men exiled,
\nAnd desperate fortunes. So the iron hands
\nJoin us and the adventurous hearts, to build
\nA modern seat of empire; minds like Sungram,
\nWise to forecast and bold to execute,
\nHeroes like Prithuraj, who know not fear
\nNor put a limit to their vaulting thoughts
\nSave death or unforgettable renown,
\nThe Rajpoot’s choice. Are we not strong enough?
\nWe have a thousand hardy Bheels, expert
\nIn mountain warfare, swift unerring bowmen,
\nWe have ourselves to lead them, each worth thousands,
\nSheva Ekling above us and in our hands
\nOur destiny and our swords.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tS<\/font>UNGRAM
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThey are enough.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nEnter Kodal.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tK<\/font>ODAL<\/font><\/p>\n

\nBappa, our scouts have come in. The prey is in the toils.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>APPA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHow many are they, Kodal?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tK<\/font>ODAL
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMerely ten lances. The servants and women they have sent<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 758<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nround by the lower road; the escort with four palanquins come
\nup through the hills. They have run their heads into the noose.
\nWe will draw it tight, Bappa, and choke them.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>APPA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIs their escape<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nImpossible ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tS<\/font>UNGRAM <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBappa, a hundred Bheels surround the pass
\nBy which alone they can return. Myself
\nHave posted them.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>APPA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBeside the waterfall
\nSurround them, Sungram. Kodal, let there be
\nNo random shafts to imperil by mischance
\nOur lovely booty.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tK<\/font>ODAL
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTrust me for that, Bappa. We’ll shoot through the twenty eye-balls of them and never even touch the white. Ten lances they
\nare and ten arrows will stretch them flat; there shall be nothing
\nleft to be done but the burning. If I cannot do this, I am no Bheel,
\nno Kodal and no foster-brother of Bappa.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>APPA
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEconomise our strength. I will not lose
\nA single man over this easy capture.
\nYou’re captain, Sungram.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nExeunt Sungram and Kodal.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\nPrithuraj, my friend,
\nToday begins our steep ascent to greatness.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nExeunt.<\/i><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 759<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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