Chitra

You, Arjuna!


Arjuna

Yes, I am he, the love-hungered guest at your door.


Chitra

Then it is not true that Arjuna has taken a vow of chastity for
twelve long years?


Arjuna

But you have dissolved my vow even as the moon dissolves the
night's vow of obscurity.


Chitra

Oh, shame upon you! What have you seen in me that makes you
false to yourself? Whom do you seek in these dark eyes, in these
milk-white arms, if you are ready to pay for her the price of
your probity? Not my true self, I know. Surely this cannot be
love, this is not man's highest homage to woman! Alas, that this
frail disguise, the body, should make one blind to the light of