नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)
Natyashastra of Bharata Muni with Hindi Commentary (Vol 1)
भरत मुनि / आचार्य अभिनवगुप्त द्वारा
पृष्ठ 455, कुल 654 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ें370 THE NATYASASTRA [ XX, 87-
earthquake¹, fall of meteors, an eclipse of the sun or the moon, battle², personal combat, challange, and angry conflict.
87-88. The Ḍima should abound in deceit and jugglary and should have the energetic activity of many persons, and dissention (bheda)¹ among themselves, and it is to include sixteen characters which may be gods, Nāgas, Rākṣasas, Yakṣas and Piśācas, and [besides this] the play is to be carefully made in the Grand and the Energetic Styles and is to have many States to support it².
- The Ḍima has been described by me in all its characteristics. I shall speak now about the characteristics of the Vyāyoga.
The Vyāyoga
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The Vyāyoga should be constructed by experts with one well-known Hero as its basis, and it should include a small number of female characters and [the events related in it] will be of one day's duration only¹.
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Many males are to take part in it as in the Samavakāra, but it is not to have the latter's length, for it is to have only one Act (aṅka).
92-93. It should have a royal sage as its Hero and not a divine personage, and it should include battle, personal combat, challange and angry conflict. Thus the Vyāyoga should be made with exciting Sentiments as its basis. I shall now speak of the characteristics of the Utsṛṣṭikāṅka (Aṅka).
¹ C. reads 86a as निर्घातचन्द्रसूर्योपराग सोल्कावपातसंयुक्तः. ² C. °yuddha-praharaṇa for yuddh-ūdharṣaṇa. 87-88 (.91-92); B. XVIII..87-88). ¹ B. bahu-pustotthānayoga for bahupuruṣotthāna-bheda. ² C. tajjñair-nānāśraya-viśeṣeṇa for nānāśraya-bhāvasampanna. 89 (C.93; B.XVIII.89). 90 (C.94; B.XVIII.90). ¹ Bhāsa's Madhyama. is its solitary old specimen. Prahlādanadeva's Pārtha-parākrama (12th cent.), Vatsarāja's Kirātārjunīya (12th cent.) and Viśvanātha's Saugandhikā-haraṇa etc. are very late specimens of this type. See Keith Skt. Dr. p. 265. Pusalker, Bhāsa. p. 203. Dūtavā. Dūtagha. Pañca. and Ūru. cannot be called Vyāyogas. Cf. Pusalker, Bhāsa, pp. 186, 187, 190, 209. Mankad, Types of Skt. Dr. p. 59-61. 91 (C.95; B.XVIII.91). 92-93 (C.96-97; B.XVIII.92-93).