नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

-XXVII. 28] SUCCESS IN DRAMATIC PRODUCTION 515

of memory [of the actors], speaking other words² (anyavacana i.e. those not in the play), [actor's] cry of distress³, want of proper hand movements (vihastatva), falling off of the crown and other ornaments, defects in playing the drums (puṣkaradoṣa), shyness of speech (vāgbhīti), laughing too much and crying too much will be taken as Blemishes to the Success⁴.

26. Attack of insects and ants¹ wholly spoils the Success, while the falling off of the crown and other ornaments will spoil the tumultous applause [in appreciation of the production].

27. Blemishes in the shape of an appearance of animals¹ should be disregarded. But shy speech [of the actors] and the wrong playing of the drums will [however] wholly spoil the Success².

Blemishes without remedy

28. The two [kinds of] Blemishes which cannot be remedied in the production of a play (lit. poem), are faults due to a natural calamity, and the running out of water from the Nāḍikā¹.

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² Ag. (l.c.) explains this as tūṣṇīm kṛtām anyena paṭhanīyam anyaḥ paṭhatīti anyavacanam.

³ Ag. (l. c.) explains this as ārtatvaṃ hi chadmanā pradarśanād asiddhiḥ.

⁴ C. reads one fragmentary hemistich before 25.

26 (C.26b-27a; K.26b-28a). ¹ Ag. (p. 509) probably read in his text pipīlikā-nikṣepa.

27 (C.27b-28b; K.28b). ¹ Ag. (p. 509) reads it as paśu-praveśo and comments on it as follows : सुकुमारप्रकृतेः स्त्रीपात्रप्रायस्य त्रासोत्पादनेन विघ्निविघाताय चौपातिकाय वातः पशुवेशोऽस्मल्लिङ्गकृता(?)इति चायश्चित्तम्, पशोः सिंहादेर्वधं कृत्वा सुकुमारं प्रयोक्तारं भीषयति सामाजिकं वा एवं मातङ्ग्योद्गमलिङ्गमपि कश्चित् करोति छात्तानयनेन प्रकृतप्रयोगविप्रसंवादनायेति.

² C. reads one additional hemistich between 27a and 27b. K. omits 27b.

28 (C.29; K.32). ¹ Ag. (p. 508) says on this उदकनालिकया काल इव लक्ष्यते तस्यशेषत्वम् अन्यकार्याव्यापित्वोग्यता तेन यत्र काशे यदनुचितं तच तन्निबन्धनम्.. etc. Nāḍikā (text nālikā) is a measure of time. See NŚ. XX. 66 note 1. The ancient Indian device for measuring time consisted of a water vessel of particular size with a well-defined tube (nāḍikā) at its bottom. Time required for the complete running out of water from it, was known as a nāḍikā (nāḍī), सुवर्णमाषकाश्चत्वारश्चतुरङ्गुल्यायामाः। तावत् प्रमाणकुम्भच्छिद्रेण जलाढकस्य यावता कालेण स्रुतिः स कालो वा नालिका। (See AS. II. 20 ; also AS. notes, p. 27). Here nāḍikā is used in the sense of the water-vessel used for measuring time. On the necessity of time-keeping see below 39 and NŚ. XX.23, 65-68. Ag's explanation does not seem to be clear.