नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

544	THE NATYASASTRA	[ XXXV. 44-

44. This delicate type of production is pleasing to kings. Hence plays of this class when they are found to posses [chiefly] the Erotic Sentiment, should be produced by women [only, for the enjoyment of kings]¹.

45. The play in which there occurs violent fighting, great speed [of movement] and much excitement, should be enacted not by females but by males.

46-47. If a play includes ordinary (lit. not exalted) incidents and no hurried or violent movement of limbs, and requires the observance of proper tempo, Time and regulated utterance of syllables and of well-seperated words, and does not abound in all the eight Sentiments in their exuberence¹, then it may be made to be produced by women².

The violent type of production

48-49. The play which requires energetic (āviddha) Aṅgahāras¹ to represent cutting, piercing, and challenging, and includes [a representatation of] the use of magic and occult powers as well as artificial objects and costumes, and has among its dramatis personae many males and small number of females who are of quiet nature, and mostly the Grand and the Energetic Styles are applied in its production, is of the violent (āviddha) type.

50. By the expert producers, the plays of the Ḍima, the Samavakāra, the Vyāyoga and the Īhāmṛga classes are known to be of the violent type¹.

51. Production of plays of this type should be made by [an impersonation of] gods, the Dānavas and the Rākṣasas who are majestic, and endowed with heroism, energy and strength¹.

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44 (C.26; K.XXVI.22). ¹ An instance of such a play occurs in Priyadarśikā, Act. III. 45 (C.32; K.XXVI.23).
46-47 (C.33a; K.XXVI.24-25). ¹ Read anaṣṭarasa-bahulam for miṣṭarasakahalam. K.; ² C. omits these two couplets.
48-49 (C.33-34; K.XXII.45-46). ¹ Read yac cāviddhāṅgahārantu for na cāvidyāṅgabhāvas tu, C. tatra viddhāṅgahāraṁ tu, K. See NŚ. XIV. 37-8.
50 (C.35; K.XIII.47). ¹ Read 50b as etānyāviddhasaṁjñāni, K. etc. See NŚ. XIV. 59. 51 (C.36; K.XIII.48). ¹ See NŚ. XIV. 60.