My translation attempt of Marathi Drama एकच प्याला (Only one glass) written Ram Ganesh Gadkari)
Please suggest better option for words and phrases.
Act IV
Entrance IV
(Venue: Talirama's house. Characters: Shastribuwa, Talirama ill, and his friends etc.)
Khudabaksh: What Shastribuwa, did you get a doctor or Vaidya?
Shastri: I mean, got it. But it took a lot of hard work to find! Earlier, Taliram did not allow the name of a doctor or Vaidya at all; In the end, everyone insisted, Then he said if you find a doctor or a vaidya who drinks alcohol, bring it, so it was agreed! Next we went to find a doctor or a vaidya who drinks. The whole town is full of doctors and vaidyas, but we could not find any such doctor even for the sake of medicine!
Khudabaksh: So what happened in the end?
Shastri: Your Sonyabapu is still wandering around to find a doctor who drinks alcohol. In the town I I could not find vaidya who drinks but finally I got a person.
Khudabaksh: He is a vaidya, isn't he?
Shastri: No He is not a vaidya! He was the first servant to administer medicine at a vaidya's house! Then he has set up his own factory now! I thought , it's better than no vaidya! Now he has just agreed to come- (Sonyabapu and the doctor come.) I think that Sonyabapu has got a doctor who drinks alcohol?
Sonyabapu: No. He is not a doctor, only alcoholic. But he knows a little bit of doctor skill. I brought him by insisting! I do not like your Vaidya!
Shastri: Whatever it is! I have a firm belief in Ayurvedal. Vaidya does’t know and the doctor knows - Doctor, why do you think that?, I'm sorry. This is my usual talk
Sonyabapu: Not only that; But I got disgusted due to the advertisements of these vaidyas! Talk to any vaidya, he says the same. Scientific examination, Scientific Medicines, Correct Effective Medicines, Accurate Curative Medicine, Assured cure in three days. Double refund of the charges if no result expected, With estimated cost, postage extra-
Doctor: Besides, at the end of the day, warning of danger like in the train car!
Sonyabapu: Therefore, it has become as difficult to identify whether he is a true vaidya and false vaidya as it is for correct diagnosis.! We have no disrespect for vaidya; but we need at least one real vaidya- (Vaidya enters.)
Vaidya: Get assured that your wish is fulfilled. You wanted a real vaidya? Then look, he is standing in front of us. Our medicines are very scientific and are accurate; definitely effective Assured cure in three days. Double refund of the charges if no result as expected, With estimated cost, postage extra - Special Note - Sonyabapu: This is your warning of danger! Take this Doctor, listen now! (The doctor laughs out loud.)
Vaidya: What is it, what happened?
Doctor: (laughs) You're stupid!
Vaidya: A person who calls someone else a fool because of his short acquaintance is a fool himself!
Doctor: But the one who shows all his stupidity clearly in short acquaintances is even more stupid than that!
Shastri: Let it be now! Is there any problem in awakening Taliram? Taliram, oh Taliram, get up friend! The vaidya and doctor have come. (Taliram gets up and sits down.)
Doctor: What's the matter, Sonyabapu, has this vaidya came here to give medicine?
Vaidya: Hey, I have the right to ask this question. ( To Shastribuva) What is it, Shastribuwa, what was the need to bring more when I was there?
Manyabapu: Look, Vaidyaraj, your two cults are very different. So we deliberately brought both! Yes, , 'अधिकस्य अधिकं फलं'! 'more gives more fruit'!
Vaidya: How come? The bride has two husbands instead of one, or somebody has two fathers instead of one.
Manyabapu: Vaidyaraj, don't become angry. Now that you both have arrived, give medicine to Taliram with friendship between you.
Taliram: Shastribuwa, I was not going to die by a single doctor, Whether you brought both of them for this reason?
Doctor: Your perception is due to Rajshree's( vaidya’s) medicine! There really is no life in their medicine!
Taliram: Let there be no life in medicine! The medicine should have power to take patient’s life!
Vaidya: No. Our medicines are not like that! Look at this eye medicine. I gave it to one who could not see. Now he can see even in the dark.
Doctor: We have a link to the medicine that will lock his mouth! If we give our eye medicine to a blind person, he can see in the dark, but he can see even if he closes his eyes!
Taliram: (In mind) I have a total of sixteen or seventeen diseases. Ascites is one of them. I thought that it would take my life; But it seems that there is competition between them to will win the bet!
Vaidya: So, can I take out my medicine?
Doctor: Oh,wait, let your wisdom be with you! I'm going to give them medicine!
Taliram: Ah Vaidyaraj, Doctor, if you start killing each other by arguing with each other, then who will take my life? Don't argue, I'm ready to share half the credit for my death with both of you. Um, so vaidya, take out your medicine.
Vaidya: Look at this dose. This will eliminate all your doubts about vaidyas.
Janubhau: oh ho! How many Matras( medicines)! Even from the songs of a novice poet, the matras( different meaning here– verses ) will not be so many!
Vaidya: Look at this powder, this essence, these ashes! O Suvarnabhasma(Gold ash), Moktikabhasma(Pearl ash),, O Lohabhasma(Iron ash), -
Taliram: Even in the science of taking life, what a complexity! Preparing to extract so many substances first to cure the disease! So much use of ashes to make a body ash!
Janubhau: It is difficult to save a patient once goes in the hands of a vaidya! Yeah Even he is ready to convert iron into as what is difficulty in converting patient into ash.
Vaidya: No, it is a sin to make fun of these drugs. These drugs are more valuable than life!
Janubhau: Yes, That is why you take money for medicine after taking life of patient!
Vaidya: Don't talk nonsense. There are no such drugs! You can take these medicines safely by closing your eyes!( without worrying)
Taliram: And take medicine and close your eyes again!
Janubhau: But they are forever! Indeed, the dishes prepared for the king are to be eaten by the cook beforehand, similarly there should be practice that the physician has to take the medicine along with the patient! Then the vaidyas would have thought a little while preparing these deadly substances!
Taliram: Really, what a crowd of drugs! Doctor, is there no medicine on vaidyas?
Vaidya: Don't say like that. Do not show such disbelief about vaidya. Vaidya is the true best friend of the patient.
Taliram: That's right! Who would make so friendship with patient’s life?
Doctor: Oh Sonyabapu, what a child's play! Whether diseases would be cured by vaidyas medicines? When a father takes medicine, his son's generation gets good results!
Vaidya: Let it be. Atleast Vaidyas medicine will keep the child alive; In the case of a doctor, however, the father would die due to medicine and the son would die due to exhorbitant bill!
Doctor: Prestige does not increase by criticism , why? Your people only will admit that the effect of indigenous medicine comes slowly. Look at the foreign medicines. There is a land-sky like change after three days in the patient's condition before and after taking the medicine!
Vaidya: It is true. That is, a patient who was on the ground would go to heaven in three days!
Doctor: This is an insult to medical education!
Vaidya: And you have tried to criticise Ayurveda? I am a pillar of Ayurveda!
Doctor: Are you a pillar of Ayurveda? Oh, you were a laborer in a pharmaceutical factory to run a mill on a daily basis, that's how ugly you are in the name of Ayurveda! Are you a real vaidya?
Vaidya: It is good that you have shown your hand and exposed yourself! Then are you a doctor!At least I used to have indigenous medicines in my hands. And you are not a doctor and even just a compounder. Your primary job is to recover pending bills from a doctor's office! You are insulting Ayurveda by associating with doctorl education with such a light association!
Manyabapu: Hey friends, why do you need big names like Ayurveda, Vaidya, Alopathy, Doctor in your conversation? The big names don't get hurt because you disrespect each other. What do your namesake have to do with that holy name? Countries do not get earthquakes because the wind blows the map! Now that you have arrived, look at the health condition of Taliram in unison, and return to your home with happy mood. Taliram come ahead. Yeah Vaidyaraj, doctor, don't argue now! Doctor, you check his right side and Vaidyabuva, you handle its left side. (Both start checking Taliram.)
Vaidya: What to do, the science asks to look at the pulse of the right hand. Our nerves are broken here! ( I can’t test right side) If there was a small right hand on the left side, it would have been better.
Doctor: I saw the pulse. Let's get the tongue out now!
Vaidya: Yes Shastribuwa; please stop him! Whose tongue? Why not toung ours? No one can see the tongue. If the patient had two mouths, things would be different! The tongue is in between fight right now! We just have to manage with seeing hand.
Taliram: (In mind) What should I do? If I was normal, I would have shown my one hand in such a way that one mouth would have become two mouths!
Doctor: The pulse is very slow!
Vaidya: Pulse runs very fast!
Doctor: The limbs are cold.
Vaidya: I cannot touch the body due to fever!
Doctor: Can't sleep!
Vaidya: Drowsiness is not going!
Doctor: Blood pressure has decreased!
Vaidya: Blood pressure has become excessive!
Doctor: Nutrents should be supplied to blood!
Vaidya: Bleeding should be done by fixing traps!
Doctor: If not, it will go to tuberculosis!
Vaidya: If not, there will be obesity!
Taliram: What is it, is this exam a joke? The distance between the words of both of them is like the distance the land and the sky! Shastribuva, I think you brought both as I was not to die by one?
Doctor: How do you say that? There is left-right in the body! Just as one half part gets headache? One eye comes and one eye goes!
Vaidya: Moreover, the opposition in our our medication systems should be taken into account. We agree to disagree! That's the difference!
Taliram: Yes, then it is ok. Now do whatever harm to my body feel as you wish. You told that one side is thinned with decay and the other side is swollen with fat. I shall laught towards thin side of my body from extra large side. Not only this, I am also ready to shoulder the dead side on one side if I am dead on one side! Let's continue the exam!
Doctor: This disease is curable if we try.
Vaidya: The disease is incurable!
Doctor: If you follow strict diet, the patient will be cured.
Vaidya: Even if Dhanvantari( greatest vaidya) is called, the patient will not live!
Doctor: The patient will not die in any case!
Vaidya: In three days, I can make him die.
Doctor: Hey, I do not want your bet. Give the medicine that you want to give.
Doctor: (In mind) Now I shall deceive this thief very well. (Openly) Okay, send the man with me I shall send the medicine. It should be given three times a day with alcohol! You have to keep giving alcohol all the time!
Vaidya: This is our medicine. Take this once in three days, do not drink alcohol! Don't even touch the drop of alcohol!
Taliram: Don't want to touch alcohol? Is that so Shastribuwa, get up both of them! Don't want a touch of alcohol? Hmmm, get up! Doctor, send what medicine you have and give the rest of the hospital to that vaidya and Vaidyabuva, you push your whole Ayurveda into this doctor's throat! Let's go (They both go.) Look what a game of luck! I started drinking alcohol for medicine and now I have to take medicine for alcohol. Khudabaksh, take out if there is any balance! Stop this child's play! (They bring alcohol; everyone starts drinking.)
Sudhakar: Wait, don't finish everything. I want as much alcohol as I can now. (He comes forward with a chair, table, two or three bottles, etc. and fills the glass.)
Shastri: Why, Khudabaksh? Did my statement come true or not? Sudhakar, was the test of your nature right? Your promise has gone foil.
Sudhakar: (Filling the glass) My fellow fools, you have not tested by my nature. But I was not able to test my misfortune! Friends, forgive me once for speaking or not speaking, but don't tease me this time! The cowardly savages have to get away even after hearing the roar of the injured lion! I want to laugh Do you want to hurt me Do it, relaxed. But go to one side!
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