नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

-XXVI, 67.] SPECIAL REPRESENTATION 501

moving eyeballs, throbbing and shaking limbs, glancing sideways for fear (lit. terrified heart), looking for someone to rescue them, weeping loudly and putting their arms round the man [staying close by].

Women’s intoxicated condition

61. Intoxicated conditions (lit. intoxication) which have been mentioned before should be applied to women, and men of the inferior type. Adoption of gestures (lit. form) in such cases should be delicate and graceful.

62. Women’s intoxication should be indicated by rolling of eyes, uttering of irrelevant words (vilāpa = pralāpa) and shaking of limbs.

63. These are the rules to be followed in a theatrical production for the representation of men’s or women’s States when occasion for these will arise.

64. In a theatrical production the States of women are all to be made graceful (lalita) and that of men endowed with Self-control (dhairya) and Equanimity (mādhurya).

Parrots and Śārikās

65. Parrots, Śārikās and small birds like these are to be indicated by two moving fingers in the Tripatāka hand.

Big birds

66. But birds like peacocks, cranes and swans which are naturally big are to be indicated by proper Recakas and Aṅgahāras$^1$.

Asses and camels etc.

67. Asses, camels, elephants, tigers, cows, buffaloes and the like should be indicated by Gaits and gestures [suitable to them]$^1$.

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61 (C.60; K.XXV.62b-63a).
62 (C.61; K.XXV.63b-64a).
63 (C.62; K.XXV.64b-65a).
64 (C.63; K.XXV.65b-66a).
65 (C.64; K.XXV.66b-67a).
66 (C.65; K.XXV.67b-68a). $^1$ K. reads 66b as पक्षाङ्गोदारगतिभिरभिनेयाः प्रयोक्तृभिः.
67 (C.66; K.XXV.68b-69a). $^1$ K. reads this as follows : खरोष्ट्र गोऽश्वावतरान् सिंहव्याघ्रगजादिकान् । महाप्रयुक्ताङ्गहारैर्गतिभिश्च प्रदर्शयेत्.