नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

.XI. 94 ] THE CĀRĪ MOVEMENTS [ 205

embellished with the Sauṣṭhava and accompanied by music with [proper] tempo and Tāla.

The Sauṣṭhava

88-91. *Those performing the exercises [in Aṅgahāras] should take care of the Sauṣṭhava, for the limbs without it (Sauṣṭhava) create no beauty (lit. do not shine) in drama or dance. The Sauṣṭhava of limbs is to be presented by being still, unbent, at ease, not very upright and not much bent. When the waist and the ears as well as the elbow, the shoulder and the head are in their natural position (sama) and the breast is raised it will be the Sauṣṭhava [of the body].*¹

The Caturasra

91-92. Caturasara : The Vaiṣṇava Sthāna with the two hands moving about at the waist and the navel together with the breast raised, is called the Caturasra of the limbs.

The four acts relating to the bow

92-93. There are four acts relating to the bow, viz. preparing (parimārjana), taking an arrow (ādāna), taking an aim (sandhāna) and shooting (mokṣaṇa).

93-94. The preparing (parimārjana)¹ is the bending [of the bow], taking (grahaṇa) is the pulling out of [the arrow], taking an aim (sandhāna) is to put the arrow to the bow, and shooting (mokṣaṇa) is the release [of the arrow].

The method of exercise

94-95. One should perform exercise [in the Aṅgahāras and Cārīs] on the floor as well as [high up] in the air and should have beforehand get one's body massaged with the [sesamum] oil or barely gruel.

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88-91 (B.X.89b, 91-93, G.89b 90-92). ¹ B.G. read one additional couplet after this.
91-92 (B.X.94-95, G.94).   92-93 (B.X.95-96, G.95).
93-94 (B.X.96-97, G.96).   ¹ G. reads sammārjana.
94-95 (B.X.97-98, G.97).