नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

420 | THE NATYASASTRA | [ XXIII. 57

57. This should be the dress of celestial women in their love-making. But in other conditions their dresses are to be made white.

Human females according to their countries

58. Human females are to have dresses and ornaments according to their places of origin. Listen properly about them.

Women of Avanti and of Gauḍa

59. The young women of Avanti are to have curling hairs, and the women of Gauḍa are to have hairs mostly curled and they are to have the Śikhāpāśa and the Veṇī.

Ābhīra women

60. The Ābhīra women are to have two Veṇīs on their head which should be covered with a [piece of] deep blue cloth.

Women of the North East

61. The women of the North East are to hold up their Śikhaṇḍas, and in dressing themselves they cover the body up to their hair.

Women of the South

62. The women of the South are to have Ullekhya with Kumbhīpadaka, and Āvarta on the forehead

63. Thus, dresses, ornaments, and hair-cutting etc. should be regulated for the remaining characters according to their habitation and birth.

Ornaments to be worn in the right place

64. An ornament not put on in its proper place will create

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57 (C.62; K.XXI.40a, 46). ¹ Read divyāṅganā° ca.
58 (C.63; K.XXI.47, 40a).
59 (C.64; K.XXI.48). ¹ Probably the district of Malda and neighbouring regions in modern Bengal.
60 (C.65; K.XXI.49). 61 (C.66; K.XXI.50).
62 (C.67; K.XXI.51). ¹ Ullekhya is probably connected with Bengali ulki (tatto).
² Possibly a special kind of tatto. ³ Some kind of circular mark.
63 (C.68b-69a; K.XXI.52). ¹ K. omits 62a C. adds one hemistich (C. 68a) before 62, which in trans. is follows : Courtezans are to have the decoration [of the body] according to their choice.
64 (C.69b-70a; K.XXI.53).