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1 Sumitra: (to Paro) It’s true Paro, you will walk into their mansion slowly
with the mark of marriage on your forehead, a bridal veil over your head, and dreams in your eyes.
2 O’ my beloved
You will dance with Devdas Just as Lord Krishna and his lover, Radha, danced in the hindu epics.
Song on your lips, enthusiasm in your heart: Krishna is dancing with Radha.
Just as Lord Krishna and his lover, Radha, danced in the hindu epics.
3 Kaushalya: (to Sumitra) What is this?
4 Sumitra: (to Kaushalya) The token of betrothal, for your son, and my daughter, for Paro and Devdas’ marriage.
5 Kaushalya: (to Crowd) She (Sumitra) is excellent at taking advantage of the situation.
(to Sumitra) When she was a child, Paro used to steal guavas from our orchards.
Now she wants to steal my son?
6 Sumitra: (to Kaushalya) No sister, that is not true.
Devdas and Paro are childhood lovers.
7 Kaushalya: (to Sumitra) You may not betray the traits, but you are descended from a lineage of courtesans.
We are powerful Landlords
8 Kumud: (to Kaushalya) Let it go aunti…
(to Sumitra) now let’s talk about Paro…
Powerful Landlords are not dishonored by such affairs
9 Sumitra: (to Kumud) Being the daughter in law in a Landlord’s family
you have so little humbleness that you dare to interfere when elders speak?
10 Sumitra: (to Kaushalya) You have crossed all your limits. Replying to you is beneath my dignity
11 Sumitra: (to Kaushalya) I could never fathom that the lady of a big, powerful landlord’s family with a big mansion and big, expensive things,
could have such a narrow and small heart
12 Sumitra: (to Kaushalya) I can’t believe that you dare to count guavas.
I’ve fed your son with my own two hands more times than the number of guavas my daughter stole
13 Sumitra: (to Kaushalya) Because you are deaf, Kaushalya,
you cannot listen to the way your son’s heart beats with desire.
You are blind, to not see the love between them.
14 Sumitra: (to Kaushalya) You talk about wealth.
I swear on the goddess of wealth herself that within seven days, I will marry Paro into a family richer and of a higher status than yours.
If I fail, I beg you to come mourn my death on day eight.