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Ashta Nayikas and Dance Forms (study)

by V. Dwaritha | 2013 | 71,711 words

This page relates ‘Examples of Madhya Kalahantarita� of the study dealing with the Ashta-Nayikas—a classification of eight kinds of “Heroines� representing the eight emotional states (avastha) employed in the classical Indian dance and performing arts (otherwise known as Natya Shastra). These Ashtanayikas reflect the eight types of romantic relationships and have hence formed the expressive subject of many classical painting, poems and dramatic plays.

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Part 6 - Examples of Ѳ Գٲ

Examples of the Ѳ variety of the Գٲ character of woman heroine:  

विरमति कथनं विना � खेदः सत� कथने समुपैत� कापि लज्ज� �
इत� कलहमधोमुखी सखीभ्यो लपितुमनालपितुं � नायकाङ्क्ष �

viramati kathana� vinā na kheda� sati kathane samupaiti kāpi lajjā |
iti kalahamadhomukhī sakhībhyo lapitumanālapitu� ca nāyakāṅkṣa ||
[1]

The cannot relieve herself of the agony without telling her friends about the fight with the hero. But, out of shyness she is unable to disclose. Yet wanting to tell she sits face downcast in front of her friends.

The following is also a similar verse. Here, the wants to tell her friends about the previous fight but finds it difficult:

मध्येसखीजनसभ� कलहाभिधा�-व्यग्र� स्फु रत्यधर एव विशेषमिच्छन् �
कण्ठेऽर्गलीभवति कापि कठोरलज्जोत्यधीनस� भजति चित्रितचित्तवृत्ति� �

madhyesakhījanasabha� kalahābhidhāna-vyagra� sphu ratyadhara eva viśeṣamicchan |
kaṇṭhe'rgalībhavati kāpi kaṭhoralajjotyadhīnasau bhajati citritacittavṛtti� ||
[2]

Footnotes and references:

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[1]:

鲹ñᲹī, l. 132.

[2]:

The Śṛṅgārasārini, cxv. 40.

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