नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

422	THE NATYASASTRA	[ XXI. 73-

73. The dark red (kāṣāya) colour is made up of the blue and the red, and the pale-red (gaura) colour, of the red and the yellow.

74. These are the primary derivative colours. Besides these there are [many] secondary derivative colours which may be made up of three or four [original] colours.

The secondary derivative colours

75. Of these, the strong colour should form one part and the weak colour two parts ; but the blue colour should be taken as directed below.

76 'The blue should form only one part while the other colours will form three parts, for the blue is known to be the strongest of colours.

77. Knowing these rules of colours which are to be prepared by mixing them variously¹, one should paint the body of different characters.

78. The painted body together with the change of the Costume is to be considered as due to the convention (nāṭyadharma) affecting the dramatis personae¹.

79-80. Just as [the soul of] a man on entering the body of another being, renounces his own nature connected with a different body and assumes another character¹, so a person having (lit. covered with) [a different] colour and Costume adopts the behaviour connected with the clothes he will wear.

Living beings

81. As they have breath, the gods, the Dānavas, the Gandharvas, the Yakṣas, the Rākṣasas and the Pannagas (Nāgas) are called living beings (prāṇin)¹.

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73 (C.75b-76a, K.XXI.62).
74 (C.76b-77a, K.XXI.63).
75 (C.77b-78a, K.XXI.64).
76 (C.78b-79a, K.XXI.65).
77 (C.79b-80a, K.XXI.66). ¹ nānāsaṃyoga (C) for mānasamyoga(K).
78 (C.80b-81a, K.XXI.67). ¹ C. reads after this an additional couplet.
79-80 (C.82b-83a, K.XXI.65). ¹ Read parabhāvaṃ for parābhāvaṃ.
81 (C.84b-85a, K.XXI.70). ¹ C. reads an additional couplet after this.