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.XX. 30 ] TEN KINDS OF PLAY 359

A wise playwright should not put in [too] many incidents in a single Act¹. And incidents in it should be depicted without a hindrance of the routine duties².
Persons who will enter the stage in an Act (lit. there) will go out after performing things connected with the Germ and the meaning of the play, and [they are to create] the proper Sentiments.
Knowing the length of a day which is divided into Kṣaṇas¹, Yāmas² and Muhūrtas³ one should distribute all the different incidents in a play to different acts.

The Introductory Scene

When incidents that are to be finished in course of a [single] day, cannot be accommodated in an Act they should be presented in Introductory Scenes after closing the [same] Act.
[Incidents] that may take place in course of a month or a year, are also to be presented [similarly] after closing the Act¹; but [incidents covering] more than a year should never be treated [in such a manner].²
When in an Act any person goes out on business to a distant land, it should be brought to a close [at that point] as perscribed before.
With an Act of the Nāṭaka and the Prakaraṇa the Hero should be closely associated. And an Introductory Scene¹ should be made up² of a conversation of attendants.

24 (C.25; B.XVIII.22). ¹ Read ekāṅke na instead of ekāṅkena (B.C.). The controversy over the reading is anterior to the time of Ag. (See Ag.).
² Routine duties include prayers as well as taking meals. (sandhyāvandanādi).
25 (C.26; B.XVIII.23).
26 (C.27; B.XVIII 25).
27 (C.28; B.XVIII.26). ¹ Ex. Avi, II, Vikram, V.
28 (C.29, B.XVIII.31). ¹ C. reads aṅkacchedaṃ kuryāt for °cchedaṃ kṛtvā. The meaning of this rule is that an Act will include events covering a month or a year. But this contradict 23 above.
29 (C.30; B.XVIII.32).
30 (C.31; B.XVIII.28). ¹ B. vijñeyaḥ for kartavyaḥ; C. praveśake for praveśako.

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