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Natyashastra of Bharata Muni with Hindi Commentary (Vol 1)

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पृष्ठ 458, कुल 654 में से

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पृष्ठ 458

-XX. 112 ] TEN KINDS OF PLAY 378

106-107. Some popular topic [of scandal] or incident of hypocrisy should be introduced in the Prahasana through the disputations of pretenders. The Prahasana should include [any of] the types of the Vīthi it may properly require¹.

The Bhāṇa

107-108. I shall now speak of the characteristics of the Bhāṇa. The Bhāṇa is to be acted by a single character, and it is of two¹ kinds : that [with one's] recounting of one's own experience and that [with one's] describing someone else's acts².

  1. [The Bhāṇa which is to include] somebody else's words addressed to oneself, should be acted by means of replies in course of Conversations with Imaginary Persons (ākāśa-bhāṣita) in accompaniment of [suitable] movement of the limbs.

  2. The Bhāṇa should include characters of rogues and parasites (viṭa) and treat their different conditions, and it is always to consist of one Act and should include many movements which are to be acted by a rogue (dhūrta) or a parasite.

  3. All the characteristics of the Bhāṇa have been described by me according to the tradition (āgama). I shall [now] speak of the characteristics of the Vīthi in due order.

The Vīthī

112-113. The Vīthī is to be acted by two persons or one. And it is to include characters of the superior, the middling or the

106-107 (C.110-111a; B.XVIII.106-107a). ¹ C. reads 107a as उद्घात्यकादिभिरिदं वीथ्यङ्गे मिश्रितं भवेन्नित्यम्. ² See below 112-129.

107-108 (C.111b-112; B.XVIII. 107b-108). ¹ Emend vividha into dvividha (ms. cha in B.).

² The four Bhāṇas (Ubhayābhisārikā, Padma-prābhṛtaka, Dhūrta-viṭa-saṃvāda and Pāda-tāḍitaka) published under the title Caturbhāṇī placed by F. W. Thomas between the 6th and the 7th century are the oldest available specimens of this type (F. W. Thomas, J R A S. 1922, pp. 262ff. F.W. Thomas, Centenary Supplement J R A S. 1924 pp. 129-136; S.K.De, in J R A S. 1926, pp. 63-90, Hist of Skt. Lit. pp. 241ff. For later Bhāṇas see Keith, Skt. Dr. pp. 263-264.

109 (C.113; B.XVIII.109).

110 (C.114; B.XVIII.110).

111 (C.115; B.XVIII.111).

112-113 (C.116-117; B.XVIII.112b-113a, 112a and its f. n. 2).