नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

-XIX. 55 ] MODES OF ADDRESS AND INTONATION 349

The slow (vilambita) note preceeds from the throat register and is of slightly low pitch (mandra)$^8$ ; it is to be used in love$^9$, deliberation, discrimination, jealous anger, envy, saying something which cannot be expressed adequately, bashfulness, anxiety, threatening, surprise, censuring, prolonged sickness$^{10}$, squeezing and the like. [On this subject] there are the following traditional couplets :

46-48. To suit various Sentiments the intonation (kāku) should always be made high (ucca), excited (dīptā), and fast (druta) in a rejoinder, confusion, harsh reproach, representing sharpness and roughness, agitation, weeping, challenging one who is not present (lit. away from the view) threatening and terrifying [anyone], calling one who is at a distance, and rebuking [anyone].

49-50. Intonation should be made grave (mandra) and low (nīca) in sickness, fever, grief, hunger, thirst, observation of a lesser vow (niyama), deliberation, deep wound from a weapon, communicating confidential words, anxiety and state of austerities.

51. Intonation should be made grave (mandra) and fast (druta) in women’s soothing children (lallā)$^1$, refusal to love’s overture (manmanā)$^2$, panic and attack of cold.

52-55. The intonation should be made slow (vilambita), excited (dīptā) and of low pitch (mandra) in following an object lost after being seen, hearing anything untoward about a desired object or person, communicating something desired, mental deliberation, lunacy, envy, censure, saying something which cannot be adequately expressed [by words], telling stories, rejoinder, confusion, an action involving excess, wounded$^1$ and diseased limb, misery, grief, surprise jealous anger, joy and lamentation.

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$^8$ C. mandra for tanumandra. $^9$ B. reads karuṇa after śṛṅgāra.
$^{10}$ C. reads roṣa for roga.
46-48 (C.46-48; B.XVII. 115-117).
49-50 (C om. B.XVII. 118-119).
51 (C.49; B. XVII. 120). $^1$ C. malle ca mardane for lalle ca manmane. $^2$ See note 1.
51-55 (C. 50; 51a-53a, 51b, 53b, B.XVII.121-124). $^1$ Read vikṣate vyādhite tvaṅge.