नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

-X.III 146 ] THE DIFFERENT GAITS 227

limbs, due to words and due to the costume and make-up. Of these the ugly and big teeth, baldness, hunch on the back, lameness and, distorted face will be objects of laughter due to limbs. When one walks like a crane looking up and looking down and with wide strides, this too becomes an object of laughter due to limbs.

140-141. Talking incoherently, meaninglessly, unnaturally and uttering obscene words are to be known as [objects of] laughter due to words.

141-142, A person covered with tattered clothes or skin, or smeared with ink (or lamp-black), ashes or yellow ochere is [an object of] laughter due to the costume and make-up. Hence the [Jester] after considering the characters [he will be confronting] should carefully (lit. essentially) assume [one or more of] these states.

143-146. The Gait of the Jester should be distinguished according to his different conditions. [For example] in his natural Gait he is to carry the Kuṭilaka (kuṭila) in his left hand and to show the Catura (gesture) with the right hand. Besides this he is lower by turns one of his sides, head, hands and feet observing proper tempo and Tāla. The Gait other than this which is natural, will be abnormal. His Gait on having some food which was difficult to get, will be arrested.

Gait of the menials

146-148. The Gait to represent the walking of servants of lower order or other persons of the inferior type should be as follows : in the walking of servants, one of their sides or head or a hand or a foot is to be lowered and their eyes are to move to [different] objects.

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² For vakavat G. reads khagavad.
140-141 (B.XII.140b-141a, G.139). ¹ For vākyahāsyam B.G. reads kāvyahāsyam.
141-142 (B.XII.141b-142, G.140-141a).
143-146 (B.XII.143-146a, G.141b-144). ¹ B. reads 146a as alābhalābhād bhuktasya etc.
146-148 (B.XII.146b-147, G.145-146).