नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

-XXIII. 89 ] THE COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP 423

Lifeless objects

82. Hills, palaces, mechanical contrivances (yantra), shields, armours, banner-staffs and the various weapons are known as lifeless objects (aprāṇin)¹.

Lifeless objects in human form

83. But whenever necessary (lit. due to a reason) they may assume a human form with [suitable] dress and speech according to the dramatic convention (nāṭya-dharma).

Painting the limbs

84. After learning the rule of making colours one should paint the limbs [of the dramatis personae] in keeping with their habitation, birth and age.

Colours for gods

85. Gods as well as the Yakṣas and the Apsarasas should be painted reddish yellow (gaura), and Rudra, Arka (the Sun) Druhiṇa (Brahman) and Skanda are to have the colour of gold.

86. Soma (the Moon), Bṛhaspati, Śukra, Varuṇa and the stars, the ocean, the Himālaya, and Gaṅgā (the Ganges) are to be made white in colour.

87. Aṅgāraka [Maṅgala = Mars] should be painted red and Budha and Hutāśana (Agni) yellow and Nārāyaṇa and Nara as well as Vāsuki should be dark blue (śyāma).

Colour for demi-gods

88. The Daityas, the Dānavas, the Rākṣasas, the Guhyakas, the Piśācas, gods of hills, and the sky are dark blue in colour.

89. The Yakṣas, the Gandharvas, the Bhūtas, the Pannagas (Nāgas), the Vidyādharas, the Pitṛs and the monkeys are of various colours.

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82 (C.86b-87a; K.XXI.71). ¹ Read तेऽप्राणिनः.
83 (C.87b-88a; K.XXI.72). 84 (C.88b-89a, K.XXI.73).
85 (C.89b-90a; K.XXI.74). ¹ Read rudrārkadruhiṇa (K.) for rudraḥ sadruhiṇaḥ (C.).
86 (C.90b-91a; K.XXI.75). 87 (C.91b-92a, K.XXI.76).
88 (C.92b-93a; K.XXI.77). ¹ Presiding deity of hills (Ag.).
89 (C.93b-64a; K.XXI.78). 90 (C.94b-95a, K.XXI.79).