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Essay name: Hastalaksanadipika a critical edition and study

Author: E. K. Sudha
Affiliation: Government Sanskrit College (Tripunithura) / Department of Sanskrit

This is an English study on the Hastalaksanadipika—a manual depicting the Mudras (gestures) of the Kerala theatre. It is a very popular text supposedly dating to the 10th century A.D. This study also touches the subject of Krsnanattam, Kathakali and Kutiyattam—some of India's oldest theatrical traditions in Kerala.

Chapter 7 - Vacikabhinaya according to Bharata’s Natyasastra

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7 (of 29)


External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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in vīra, raudra and adbhuta rasas, udātta and kampita; in bibhatsa and bhayānaka rasas, anudatta, and kampita modes of intonation predominate in rendering the text. 4. Kākus (The variations in inflexion):- Kāku is of two kinds - Nirākāṅkṣa and Sākāṅkṣa. A sentence or a word has an obvious meaning. But, this may be rendered by inflex- ions in voice to give a completely different or implied meaning. The former, i.e. obvious meaning is called nirākāṅkṣakaku (the plain inflex- ion) and the latter is called sākāṃkṣakāku (the implied inflexion). In the sākāṃkṣakāku, the modes of intonation and enunciation are incomplete. It starts with a high pitch and ends in low pitch. The motivating impulses start in the throat and the chest. The process does not confine itself to the obvious meaning but gives a completely different or implied meaning. In nirākāṅkṣakāku intonation and enunciation are complete starting in the lower pitch and ending in the higher pitch, the impulses originating from the head. It renders the fully intended meaning of the text. 5. Alankaras (The modes of enunciation): - The modes of enunciation are of six kinds - Ucca (the high), Dipta (the bright), Mandra (the base), Nica (the low), and Druta (the fast) and Vilambita (the dilated). Bharata has described in great detail the uses of these six kinds of enunciation. 215

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