Tales from the Hindu dramatists

Excerpt: ...notices signs of royalty in his hands and is surprised that such a hand is engaged in so low an office. "She looks attentively and exclaims in a wild voice, Oh my lord! Oh Maharaja! you a slave in this burning-ground! Oh lord Kausika! are you not yet satisfied?" The queen rushes to embrace the king. The king starts away from her and forbids her saying, "Oh my queen! do not touch me, I am the slave of a Chandal. Be patient." She faints again. The king cannot touch her as he is in the garb of a Chandal. After a while, the queen recovers, and the king addresses her thus: Pg 75