नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

232 THE NATYASASTRA [ XIII. 186-

Gait of children

186-187. The Gait of children will be according to their will and no Sauṣṭhava and [fixed] measrement will be required.

Gait of hermaphrodites

187-188. The third type of persons will be hermaphrodites in whose case women's Gait to the exclusion of their [partial] male character, should be applied.

Gait in the change of role

188-189. A change [of their role] by men, women and hermaphrodites should be represented by assumption on their part of Gaits suitable to those [new roles] to the exclusion of their own [original] character.

Gait of persons in disguise

189-191. For disguise, sports or deception [of others] a woman assumes the role of a man, and a man that of a woman. [In such cases] the woman should play the role of a man with patient and liberal spirit and intelligence, and with acts as well as dress, words and movement suitable to that [character].

191-192. To play the role of a woman a man is to wear her clothes, speak like her and look at things and abstain from looking at these as she does, and is to assume a delicate and slow Gait.

Gait of the tribal women

192-193. Women of inferior birth and of the Pulinda and the Śabara tribes are to have Gaits natural to their community.

Gait of women ascetics

193-194. In case of observing a vow or practising austerities or bearing the mark [of religious sects,] or staying in the sky the Samapada Cārī is to be used [as their Gait].

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186-187 (B.XII.193b-194a, G.186).
187-188 (B.XII.194b-195a, G 187).
188-189 (B.XII.195b-196a, G.188).
189-192 (B.XII.196b-199a, G.189-191).
192-193 (B.XII.199b-200a, G.192).
193-194 (B.XII.200b-201a, G.193).