नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

546 THE NĀṬYAŚĀSTRA [ XXXV. 59-

Impersonation of the attendants of gods

59-60. The attendants of gods¹ should be made like those of kings, and in the drama they are to be given the costume, the language² and movements suitable [to their character].

60-61. The producer should give to the actor the natural appearance of a character by giving him [suitable costume] and by associating him with suitable age through the make-up¹.

61-62. Thus one should make a selection of persons for representing kingly manners. I shall speak hereafter of the qualities desirable in producers.

The characteristics of a Director

In this connexion, I shall speak of the qualities of a Director. An enumeration of his qualities will constitute these characteristics; they are : complete refinment of speech, knowledge about the Tāla, rules for timing of songs, and of the theory relating to musical notes and to the playing of musical instruments¹.

63-68. One who is an expert in playing the four kinds of musical instrument, well-trained in rites prescribed in the Śāstras, conversant with the practices of different religious sects and with polity and the science of wealth, expert in the manners of courtesans, and in poetics¹, knows the various conventional Gaits² and movements, throughly appreciates [all] the States (bhāva) and the Sentiments (rasa), is an expert in producing plays, acquainted with various arts and crafts, conversant with the rules of prosody and the metrical feet, and is clever in studying the different Śāstras, acquainted with the science of stars and planets and with the working of the human body, knows the extent and customs of the earth, its continents and divisions, mountains and people, and the descendants of different royal lines³, is fit to attend to the Śāstras relating to his works, capable of understanding them and of giving

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59-60 (C.43; K.XXIV. 82b-83a). ¹ divyānāṃ, K. dravyānāṃ, C.).
² deśabhāṣā; K. (deśabhāṣā, C.).
60-61 (K.XXIV.83b-84a). ¹ This passage seems to be a variant of 25.
61-62 (C.44 and prose; K.XXIV.84b and prose). ¹ K. reads the prose passage differently.
63-68 (C.45-50; K.XXIV 93-98). ¹ kāvyaśāstra. K., kāmaśāstra, C.
² gatipracāra, K. gītapracāra, C.). ³ prasūtivit, K. prasūtivān, C.