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Natyashastra of Bharata Muni with Hindi Commentary (Vol 1)

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पृष्ठ 559, कुल 654 में से

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पृष्ठ 559

474 THE NATYASASTRA [ XXIV. 261-

  1. If the left eye, eyebrow, forehead, lip, arm, breast or thigh throbs, this will indicate the coming [of the beloved].

  2. If these will throb differently¹ that will indicate something calamitous (lit. not desired). In case of perceiving such bad omens she should at once faint².

  3. As long as the beloved has not come, her hand will rest on her cheek, and being careless about her toilet she should go on weeping.

  4. But afterwards on seeing some good omen indicating his arrival the Heroine should represent that the beloved one has drawn near by means of feeling¹ his smell.

Heroine's reception of the beloved

  1. On seeing him [come] she should joyfully get up and proceed to receive the beloved and look at him with eyes beaming in pleasure.

Receiving the guilty lover

  1. But [in case of] the beloved one who has come with the signs [of meeting another woman] and green wounds¹ [received from her] she should point out [the man] after assuming the Āyata posture (sthāna) with her hand in the hand of her female friend².

  2. And the beloved one being found guilty he should be given censure in due order by means of [appropriate] gestures and reproachful words as well as by Jealous Anger (māna), Insult (avamāna), Fainting (sammoha) or Dissimulation (avahitthā)¹.

261-263. Due to reasons like the application of Dissimulation, the use of hidden words or of laughter, curiosity, flurry, calamity and acceding to a situation of fun and to his


254 (C.XXXI.148; K.XXII.239b-240a).
255 (C.XXXI.149; K.XXII.240b-241a). ¹ That is, if the right ey and eyebrow etc. throb. ² K. reads 255 a as यतोऽन्यथा स्पन्दमाने दुरितं दक्षिणं भवेत्.
256 (C.XXXI.150; K.XXII.241b-242a).
257 (C.XXX.151; K.XXII.242b-243a). ¹ That is, by representing it with gestures.
258 (C.XXXI.152; K.XXII.243b).
259 (C.XXXI.153). ¹ i.e. of biting and scratching. ² K. omits this.
260 (C.XXXI.154-155a, K.XXII.244-245a).
261-263 (C.XXXI.155a-157a; K.XXII.247-248). ¹ K. reads dharmārtha-kāma-yogeṣu.

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