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222 THE NATYASASTRA [ XIII. 92-

mount [these vehicles] is to hold his body up and with opposite of this [motion] one is to make one's discent [from them].

Gait while moving in the sky

92-95. The Gait of a character moving through the sky is to include the aerial Cārīs and looking downwards, and [besides this] one is to move [first] from the Samapāda Sthāna (posture) with simple steps. The Gait of one who desends from the sky is also to be of this kind. This Gait is to consist of steps straight and wide or high and low, or irregular and round about.

The Gait of a person falling from the sky is to include the Apaviddha arms, scattered ends of clothes and eyes set on the ground [below].

Gait in ascending any lofty palace

96-98. [In a play sometimes] there is necessity of ascending [stairs of] a palace, tree or hill or any other high object and descending from them or getting down into a river or some lower region and getting up from it. In ascending [the stairs of] a palace a person should move the feet in the Atikrāntā Cārī, and with the body held up he should put forward his steps in [the flight of] stairs. In descending from the same, the body should be slightly bent and one foot should be in the Atikrāntā Cārī and the other in the Añcita movement.

98-100. This Gait suited to ascending [the stairs of] a palace should be applied in climbing hills. But in the case of hills the limbs are to be thrown up. The climbing of trees [should be represented] by steps in the Atikrāntā, Sūcī, Apakrāntā and Pārśvakrāntā Cārīs.

Gait in getting down into lower places

101-104. This should also be the Gait in coming down [from the trees] and the same should apply in case of getting down into a river.

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92-95 (B.XII.92-95, G.91b-94).
96-98 (B.XII.96-98a, G.95-97). $^1$ gātram ānamya (B. gātram asyaiva).
99-100 (B.XII.103-104, G.103 104).
101-104 (B.XII.105a, 98b-101, G.98-101).