नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

196 THE NATYASASTRA [ X. 51-

position of the body in connexion with the various Karaṇas, but in the Recaka movement of the feet it should be moved.

Agratalasañcara—the heels thrown up, the big toe put forward and the other toes bent.

(Uses) : This [is to be used] in urging, breaking, standing posture (sthānaka), kicking, striking the ground, walking, throwing away [something], various Recaka movements and walking on the forepart [of the foot] due to an wound at the heel.

Añcita—the heels on the ground, the forepart of the feet raised and all the toes spread.

(Uses) ; It is to be applied in representing a movement with wound at the forepart of the foot, turning round in every way, foot being struck [by something] and in various Bhramarī movements.

Kuñcita—the heels thrown up, toes all bent down and the middle of the feet too bent.

51. (Uses) : It is to be used in aristocratic (udātta) going, turning round to the right and vice versa and the Atikrāntā Cārī.

The Cārīs

52. Persons practising [the Cārīs] should take up simultaneously the movements of the feet, the shanks and the thighs. [For] in the movement of feet are included all the movements of the shanks and the thighs.

53. The thighs follow the way in which the feet are moved, and these two [limbs] constitute together the Cārī of the feet.

54. These are the descriptions and uses of the [various] limbs. I shall now describe the System of the [different] Cārīs.

Here ends Chapter X. of Bharata's Nāṭyaśāstra, which treats of the Gestures of other Limbs

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51 (B.IX.278-279a, G.53). ¹ B. reads after this three additional hemistichs wich define the Sūcī foot as follows : The [right foot with its] heel raised resting on the big toe and the left foot in the natural position constitute the Sūcī feet. It is used in dance and playing the Nūpura.
. 52 (B.IX.281, G.56). 53 (B.IX.282, G.57).
54 (B.IX.283, G.58).