नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

-XXIII. 72 ] THE COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP 421

no beauty; for by wearing a Mekhalā (girdle) on the breast one will create laughter.

Dresses to suit the condition of females

65. Similarly, the condition of females whose lover has gone abroad and who are afflicted with misery are to not to have a clean dress, and they are to wear their hair as a single Veṇī of the head.

66. The dresses of women who are separated from their lovers, should be white and they are not to wear many ornaments and not to cleanse their body¹.

67. Such should be [the dresses] of women according to their habitation and the condition [of existence]. Now I shall speak about the proper dresses of men.

Painting the limbs

68. But in their (i.e. men's) case the producers of plays should first of all paint the limbs, and then Costumes according to their habitation should be provided.

The four original colours

69. The four original (lit. natural) colours are black, blue, yellow and red; the limbs should be painted with these.

The derivative colours

70. There are besides these, the primary and the secondary derivative colours. I shall speak about the ways in which the producers are to make them.

The primary derivative colours

71. The yellowish white (pāṇḍu) colour is made up of the white and the yellow¹, and the pegion (kāpota) colour, of the white and the blue².

72. The lotus (padma) colour is made up of the white and the red, and the green (harit) colour, of the yellow and the blue.

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65 (C.70b-71a, K.XXI.54).
66 (C.71b-72a, K.XXI.55). ¹ na vāpi hi nṛtā (=mṛjā) yuta, (K).
67 (C.72b-73a, K.XXI.56). ¹ Veśā deśasamudbhavā (K).
68 (C.73, K.XXI.57). ¹ C. omits 68b.
69 (K.XXI.58). ¹ C. omits this passage.
70 (K.XXI.59). ¹ C. omits this passage.
71 (C.74a, K.XXI.60a, 61a). ¹ C. nīla for pīta. ² C. omits. 71b.
72 (C.74-75a, K.XXI.60b-61b).