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344 THE NATYASASTRA [ XIX. 29-

Addressing wife in love-making

29. In love-making the wife may be accosted as “my dear” (priye)$^1$ by all except the king. But priests’ and merchants’ wives are always to be addressed as “noble lady” (ārye)$^2$.

Giving names to different characters in a play

30. The playwrights should always assign significant names [to characters] which are not well-known and which have been created [by them]$^1$.

Name of Brahmins and Kṣatriyas

31. Of these, Brahmins and Kṣatriyas in a play should, be given, according to their clan or profession, names ending in śarman or varman$^1$.

Naming merchants

32. The names of merchants$^1$ should end in datta$^2$.

Naming warriors

To warriors should be given names indicating much valour.$^3$

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$^2$ Ex. the heterae (gaṇikā) addressed by her maid (Caru. II. 0.6). The word ajjukā (°āryakā, OIA) “madam” afterwards came to mean ‘heterae’ as in the title of the Prahasana Bhagavadajjukīyam by Baudhāyana Kavi
$^2$ No example of this seems to be available in any extant drama. But the word occurs in the form of attiā in Mṛcch. (IV.30).

29 (C.28b-59a, B. XVII. 93b 94a). $^1$ Śakuntalā is addressed as priye by Duṣyanta (Śak. VII. 20.6), but the occasion is strictly not one of love-making (śṛṅgāra); Udayana while lamenting for Vāsavadattā says Hā priye, hā priya-śiṣye etc. (Svapna. I. 12.53).
$^2$ No example seems to be available in any extant drama.

30. (C.29b-30a: B.XVII. 94b-95a). $^1$ No example of such names seems to occur in any extant drama.

31 (C.30b-31a; B.XVII. 25b-96a). $^1$ No example of such names seems to occur in any extant drama.

32 (C.31b-32a; B.XVII. 96b, 97b). $^1$ Ex. Cārudatta the hero of Bhāsa's play of the same name.
$^2$ B. reads after this one additional hemistich which in translation is as follows : The name of Kāpālikas should end in ghaṇṭa. The interpolator had evidently Bhavabhūti’s Aghoraghaṇṭa (Mālati) in mind.
$^3$ Ex. Vīrasena in Mālavī. (I.8.1).