नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

CHAPTER TWENTYSIX

SPECIAL REPRESENTATION

Special Representation

1. The peculiarity (viśeṣa) which [is required] from time to time one in the use of Gestures and Words etc¹, and which has yet been left unmentioned is known as the Special Representation (citrābhinaya)².

Day, night and season etc.

2-4. To indicate morning and evening, day and night, seasons¹, extreme darkness, wide expanse of water, directions, planets, stars, and anything that is slightly fixed, one is to make the following gestures : two hands raised with Patāka² and Svastika³ gestures, Udvāhita head⁴ looking upwards with various eyes [fitting each occasion].

Objects on the ground

5. With same¹ gestures of the hands and of the head together with the eyes looking downwards one is to indicate [objects] resting on the ground.

Moonlight, happiness and air etc.

6. To indicate moonlight, happiness, air, flavour (rasa) and smell, one is to use gestures for representing touch and horripiliation.

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1 (C.1; KXXV.1). ¹ Aṅgādyabhinayasyāiva, K (Aṅgābhinayanasyēha. C.).

² Ag. (p. 487) makes a scholastic discussion on the justification of the term citrābhinaya. But this does not appear to be convincing. The term seems to hint at the pictorial effect of the direct or indirect use of gestures and may be explained as citratvam abhinayasaya, See NŚ. XXIV. 1 note.

2-4 (C.2-4; K.XXV.2-4). ¹ K. reads 3b as जन्तून व्यस्तान् समस्तांय etc. and 4 as दिशो यद्वान् समन्तत दृष्टयश्च भवे(व)दिह । तान्येवमभितो(ने)यानि नानाभावरसार्थतः. ² See NŚ. IX.17-26 ³ See NŚ. IX.134 ⁴ See NŚ. VIII.27

5 (C.5; K.XXV.5). ¹ As described above.

6 (C.6; K.XXV.6).