Vulgar words in The Little Clay Cart - Mrcchakatika (Page 1)

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ass x 5 bastard x 5 buffoon x 1 jackass x 17

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE CHĀRUDATTA, _a Brahman merchant_ ROHASENA, _his son_ MAITREYA, _his friend_ VARDHAMĀNAKA, _a servant in his house_ SANSTHĀNAKA, _brother-in-law of King_ PĀLAKA STHĀVARAKA, _his servant_ _Another Servant of_ SANSTHĀNAKA _A Courtier_ ARYAKA, _a herdsman who becomes king_ SHARVILAKA, _a Brahman, in love with_ MADANIKĀ _A Shampooer, who becomes a Buddhist monk_ MĀTHURA, _a gambling-master_ DARDURAKA, _a gambler_ _Another Gambler_ KARNAPŪRAKA } KUMBHĪLAKA } _servants of_ VASANTASENĀ VĪRAKA } CHANDANAKA } _policemen_ GOHA } AHĪNTA } _headsmen_ _Bastard pages, in_ VASANTASENĀ'S _house_ _A Judge_, _a Gild-warden_, _a Clerk_, _and a Beadle_ VASANTASENĀ, _a courtezan_ _Her Mother_ MADANIKĀ, _maid to_ VASANTASENĀ _Another Maid to_ VASANTASENĀ _The Wife of_ CHĀRUDATTA RADANIKĀ, _a maid in_ CHĀRUDATTA'S _house_ SCENE UJJAYINĪ (_called also_ AVANTI) _and its Environs_ THE LITTLE CLAY CART PROLOGUE _Benediction upon the audience_ His bended knees the knotted girdle holds, Fashioned by doubling of a serpent's folds; His sensive organs, so he checks his breath, Are numbed, till consciousness seems sunk in death; Within himself, with eye of truth, he sees The All-soul, free from all activities.

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[_Aloud._] Did you say the good merchant's house was to the left, you jackass?

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_Courtier._ Is there anything you can trace her by, jackass?

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_Courtier._ You jackass!

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Freed from its tether, the ace-- I might better say "ass"--how it kicks me!

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I shall have to roll in the dirt again, like a beaten ass.

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16 As some one has well said: On mountain-tops no lotuses are grown; The horse's yoke no ass will ever bear; Rice never springs from seeds of barley sown; A courtezan is not an honest fair.

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[_He looks in another direction._] There are courtezans and bastard pages, adorned with any number of jewels, just like Gandharvas[55] and Apsarases.

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Tell me, who are you bastards anyway?

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S. _Pages._ Why, we are bastard pages-- Petted in a stranger's court.

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Stranger men begot; Baby elephants in mirth, We're a bastard lot.

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A courtezan, an elephant, a scribe, a mendicant friar, a swindler, and an ass--where these dwell, not even rogues are born.

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_Maitreya._ In summer, you jackass.

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_Maitreya._ [_Comes back to Kumbhīlaka._] The army, you jackass, the _senā_.

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Kumbhīlaka, you jackass, come here.

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[_He strikes him._] _Courtier._ You jackass, you should not strike a monk who wears the yellow robes of renunciation.

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[78] _Courtier._ You jackass, he praises you when he says that you are virtuous, that you are a brick.

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P. 187.7] _Courtier._ You jackass, I am sure he has not long been a monk.

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[_The monk does so, then exit._] _Courtier._ See how beautiful the garden is, you jackass.

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8 _Courtier._ Will you be seated on this stone bench, you jackass?

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[_He returns to Sansthānaka._] Jackass, there is indeed a witch who makes her home in the cart.

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[_Aloud._] Jackass, this is Vasantasenā, come to visit you.

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_Courtier._ Pardon him, jackass!

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Jackass, Vasantasenā is a pledge, committed to your hand.

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[_He does so._] [_Enter the courtier, with Sthāvaraka._] _Courtier._ I have persuaded the servant Sthāvaraka to come back, and now I will look for the jackass.

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[_He approaches Sansthānaka._] Jackass, I have persuaded your servant Sthāvaraka to return.

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[_Wrathfully._] You offspring of a loose wench, you brother-in-law of the king, Sansthānaka, you libertine, you slanderer, you buffoon, you gilded monkey, say it before me!

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It came to pass, I ran away Like any ass, and had my day.

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