नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

-XXIII. 161 ] THE COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP 433

153-154. The Paṭṭiśa will measure like the Prāsa, and the rod (daṇḍa) should measure twenty Aṅgulis while the Kampana (Kaṇapa) will be of the same measure.

154-155. The shield (carma) should be sixteen Aṅgulis in width and two cubits in length, and it should have Vālyas (hairs ?) and bells attached to it. The Kheṭaka (rider's shield) should be thirty aṅgulis in width [and two cubits in length]¹.

Use of other objects

156-157. The Jarjara¹, the Daṇḍakāṣṭha², masks, umbrellas, chowris, banner-staffs, and water-jars (bhṛṅgāra)³ and every other thing that men make use of, are [also] to be utilised in the production of a play.

158. The characteristics of all these have been mentioned by those to whose sphere they belong. Now I shall speak of the characteristics of the Jarjara and the Daṇḍakāṣṭha¹.

Indra's Banner-staff

159. Trees planted under the Puṣyā asterism, on the white soil have been made eligible for Indra's banner-staff by Viśvakarman¹.

The Jarjara

160. Some of these trees should be [fashioned into] the Jarjara by a carpenter. The branch of a tree may also be [fashioned into] the Jarjara¹.

161. But the bamboo will be most suitable [for this kind of work] and its length should be one hundred and eight Aṅgulis (4½ cubit).

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153-154 (C.159; K.XXI.135b-136a).
154-155 (C.160; K.XXI.136b). ¹ K. omits 154b.
156-157 (C.161b-163a; K.XXI.137b-139a). ¹ See NŚ. III. 73ff.
² See NŚ. I. 58-61 note 2. ³ See NŚ. I. 58-61.
158 (C.163b-164a; K.XXI.139b). ¹ Emend dantakāṣṭha into daṇḍakāṣṭha.
159 (C.164b-165a; K.XXI.142). ¹ विश्वकर्ममते बहुभेदं महेन्द्रध्वजस्य लक्षणमुक्तम् इत्यर्थः (Ag. p.434)..
160 (C.165b-166a; K.XXI.140b-141a). ¹ See above 157-157 note 1.
161 (C.166b-167a; K.XXI.141b, 143a).

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