नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

462 THE NATYASASTRA [ XXIV. 163-

Signs of a courtezan's love

163-165. A courtezan is to be considered overpowered with love when she expresses her passion by casting side-long glances, touching their ornaments, itching the ears, scratching the ground with her toes, showing the breasts and the navel, cleansing the nails and gathering her hairs¹.

Signs of love in a highborn lady

166-167. Similarly one should know that there are indications [of love] in a woman of high family, These are as follows; she looks continuously with blooming eyes, conceals her smile, speaks slowly and with a down-cast face, gives reply with a smile, conceals her sweats and appearance, has throbbing lips and is trembling¹.

Signs of a maiden's love

168. These are the various signs with which a woman not yet having the experience of love's pleasure (rati) will express her love which has ten stages¹.

Various stages of her love

169-171. First there will be a longing (abhilāṣa), secondly Anxiety (cintā), thirdly Recollection (anusmṛti), fourthly Enumeration of [the beloved one's] Merits (guṇakīrtana), fifthly Distress (udvega), sixthly Lamentation (vilāpa), seventhly Insanity (unmāda), eighthly Sickness (vyādhi), ninthly Stupor (jaḍatā), and tenthly Death (maraṇa)¹. These are the stages of love in case of men as well as of women. Now hear about the characteristics of all these.

Longing

172. Longing (abhilāṣa) arises from efforts born of desire and wish [for the beloved one], and leads to the means of meeting [him]¹.

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163-165 C.155-157a; K.XXII.148b-150). ¹ Cf. BhP. p. 113, l. 3-9, and p. 114, l. 1-2.

166-167 (C.157b-158ka; K.XXII.151-153a). ¹ Cf. BhP. p. 113, l. 17, p. 114, l. 1-2.

168 (C.159; K.XXII.153b-154a). ¹ BhP. (p.88) gives the number as 'ten or twelve'.

169-171 (C.160-162; K.XXII.154b-157a). ¹ Cf. BhP. (p. 88, l. 3-5) gives two more stages (icchā and utkaṇṭhā). Also cf. KS. V.1-5; NL.2421ff.

•172 (C.163; K.XXII.157bc). ¹ Cf. NL. 2427; BhP. p. 88, l. 15-16.