नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

.-XXIII. 56] THE COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP 419

ornaments of jewels, and the same will the dresses of [all] these, except that the Yakṣa women are to wear the simple Śikhā¹.

50. The Nāga women are to wear like the goddesses¹ the ornaments abounding in pearls and jewels, but they are also have hoods² [in addition to these].

51. The daughters of sages are to wear a single Veṇī of the hair on their head, and they should not be made to have too much decoration.

Siddha women

52. The Siddha women should have ornaments abounding in pearls and emeralds, and their dresses should be of yellow colour.

Gandharva women

53. Ornaments of the Gandharva women should be made to abound in rubies. And they are to carry a Viṇā in the hands and to have clothes of saffron colour.

Rākṣasa Women

54. The Rākṣasa women are to have saffires as their ornaments, and their teeth are to be made white and the dresses of black colour.

Goddesses

55. The celestial women are to have lapis lazuli and the pearls as their ornaments, and their dresses are to be made green like [the colour of] the parrot's tail.

Monkey females

56. The women of the [godly] monkeys are to have topaz¹ and [sometimes] lapis lazuli as their ornaments, and their dresses are to be made of blue colour.

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¹ Read samas tvāsām for samastānām (K). and yas tvāsām (C.)
50 (C.55, K.XXI.38b). ¹ K. omits 50a. ² Read phaṇās tāsām (K).
51 (C.56, K.XXI.39 and 45). ¹ Read tāsāṁ veśo vanocitaḥ (K).
52 (C.57). ¹ For the Siddha women see Megha I. 14.
53 (C.58). ¹ Read kuryāt before padma-maṇi°.
54 (C.59). 55 (C.60).
56 (C.61). ¹ Puṣparāga = puṣparāja, NIA. pokh-rāj.