नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

446 THE NATYASASTRA [ XXIV. 36-

wealth and enjoyment, irrespective of its good or bad results, is called a Tenacity (sthairya)$^1$.

Gravity

36. Gravity (gāmbhīrya) is something due to an influence of which [outward] changes in cases of anger, joy and fear do not occur$^1$.

Sportiveness

37. Erotic movements and changes [of features] which are not deliberate and which grow out of a tender nature, constitute Sportiveness (lalita)$^1$.

Nobility

38. Making gifts, bestowing favours and speaking sweet words to others as well as to one's own men, is called Nobility (audārya)$^1$.

Spirit

39. That one does not tolerate even at the risk of one's life any reproach or insult made by others, is called Spirit (tejas)$^1$.

Histrionic Represesentation through the body

40. O the best of Brahmins, I have spoken before about the Histrionic Representation through Temperament (sattva)$^1$, I shall now explain in detail the Histrionic Representation through the body$^2$.

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$^1$ DR. II. 13a; BhP. p. 10,16 gives the term as dhairya, ND. p. 198.

36 (C.36; K.XXII.36). $^1$ Cf. DR. II. 12b; BhP. p. 10, l. 7; ND. p. 198.

37 (C.37; K.XXII.37). $^1$ Cf. DR. II. 14a; BhP. p. 10, l. 8; ND. p. 198.

38 (C.38; K.XXII.38). $^1$ Cf. DR. II. 14b; BhP. p. 10, l. 10 ; ND. p. 197.

39 (C.39; K.XXII.39). $^1$ Cf. DR. II. 13b, BhP. p. 10; l. 10; ND. p. 197.

40 (C.40; K.XXII.40). $^1$ See above 1-39.

$^2$ It is curious that the author of the NŚ. is classifying abhinaya in a different manner and reckons its two broad classes : sāttvika and śārīra and gives their sub-divisions. For a four-fold division of the abhinaya see NŚ. VI. 23.