नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

-XXVI. 95 ] SPECIAL REPRESENTATION 505

which has occurred earlier, for avoiding repetition this should be [similarly] spoken in one's ears.

90-91. Without making any confusion (lit. mistake) [among these] one should resort to Speaking to the Sky (ākāśa-vacana), Private Personal Address (janāntika) and Speaking Aside (ātmagata) which will [relate sometimes] to a visible or an invisible person and [sometimes] to one's ownself or others¹.

Representing Concealed Speaking

91-92. Concealed Speaking (apavāritaka) and Private Personal Address (janāntika) should be indicated by a Tripatāka hand covering [the speaker]¹.

Repetition of words

92-93. Words which are uttered due to fright, calamity, anger and intense sorrow are to be repeated¹.

93-94. [In such cases] words such as "tell", "well done", "ah", "alas", "go away", "what", "let me go", "no" and "speak" should be repeated twice or thrice¹.

Suspension of representation

94-95. Distorted or incomplete words used [in a play] should not be represented by gestures¹ for explaining them (lit. for the sake of definition)².

Observing proper States

95-96. The State (bhāva) which is proper to a superior [character] should not be applied to a middling one ; and similarly the State which is proper to a middling [character] should not be applied to an inferior one¹.

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90-91 (C.86; K.XXV.95).
¹ Read this passage as follows : अव्यभिचारेण पठेदाकाश-जनान्तिकात्मगतवाक्यम् । प्रत्यक्षपरोक्षगतात्मसंसृत्यान् परस्मांश्च (C. पाठैः; K. यावन् for पठेत् ; C. वाक्यैः, K. पाठात् for वाक्यान्). The trans. is tentative.

91-92 (C.87; K.XXV.96). ¹ Cf. DR. I. 65b; BhP. p. 219, l. 21-22; SD. 425. Lévi. p. 61.

92-93 (C.88; K.XXV.114). ¹ K. reads punaruktam na teṣv iha.

93-94 (C.89; K.XXV.115). ¹ K. reads 93b as हाअहो सुष्ठु वा इति किं किं मा वदीति च.

94-95 (C.90; K.XXV.114). ¹ K. reads pratyaṅgahīnam, C. pratyaṅgrhītam, K. ² lakṣaṇakṛte, C. lakṣaṇakṛtas, K.

95-96 (C.81; K.XXV.118).

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