नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

552 THE NATYASASTRA [ XXXV. 103-

The craftsman

103-104. One who fashions different objects out of lac, stone, iron and wood, is called a craftsman (kāru).

The Kuśīlava

He who knows the principles of applying the different branches of instrumental music (ātodya) and is an expert in in playing them, and who is [besides] clever, refined (avadāta), free from sickness, is called the Kuśīlava¹.

The other members of the party

104-105. The man who takes to an art (śilpa), a profession or a practice and has himself acquired proficiency in it, is called by its name. So much about the communities (jāti) known in connexion with the rules of theatre as the Naṭas¹ who relate to various accessories [needed] in the production of various types of plays.

106. I have spoken about the assignment of roles and about the producers of a drama according to their function, and have delivered the Canons of Drama. Please mention, O sages, what more is to be said now¹.

Here ends Chapter XXXV of Bharata's Nāṭyaśāstra, which treats of the Distribution of Roles.

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103-104 (C.83b-84; K.XXXV.36b-37). ¹ K. reads 104a differently. The etymology of kuśīlava has very much exercised the ingenuity of modern scholars. See Keith, Skt. Drama. p. 30

104-104 (C.85-86; K.XXXV.38-39) ¹ Even now-a-days the people of the Naṭa community play drums, make dolls flower-garlands, and paint pictures. 106 (C.87). ¹ K. omits this.