NOTE.--The dramatic poem "Chitra" has been performed in India
without scenery--the actors being surrounded by the audience.
Proposals for its production here having been made to him, he
went through this translation and provided stage directions, but
wished these omitted if it were printed as a book.

SCENE I


Chitra

ART 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