नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

.VIII. 172] THE GESTURES OF MINOR LIMBS 169

Unnata—neck with the face upturned. (Use) : in looking up.

Tryasra—neck with the face turned sideways. (Use) : in carrying weight on the neck, and sorrow.

Recita—the neck shaken or moved. (Uses) : in feeling (bhāva), churning and dance.

Kuñcita—the neck with the head bent down. (Uses) : in pressure of weight and in protecting the neck.

Añcita—the neck with the head turned back. (Uses) : in hanging (to death), arranging hair and looking very high up.

Vāhita—the neck with the face turned sideways. (Uses) : in looking with the neck turned round.

Vivṛtta—neck with the face towards the front. (Use) : in (indicating) going towards one's own place.

172-173. These are the many varieties of the neck gestures according to their [expressing different] customary states of men. Gestures of the neck are all to follow the gestures of the head and the head gestures also are reflected in those of the neck. So much about the description of the gestures of the head and the connected minor limbs (upāṅga) and their uses. Now listen about the gestures of the remaining limbs (aṅga), which I am going to describe.

Here ends Chapter VIII of Bharata's Nāṭyaśāstra, which treats of the Gestures of Minor Limbs.

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172-173 (B.176-177, G.173b-175).

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