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Elaboration-Here there is mention of dances in the shape of 25% consonants only of Devanagari script. There is no mention of vowels and ya, ra, la, va, sha, sha, sa, ha, ksha, tra, jna. Is there any historical background or any other reason for it-it is yet to be found out. It is also possible that in the script used by gods there may be only the said 25 consonants. So they exhibited only the said twenty five in their dance.
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The commentator has observed that the dances should be understood according to the original shape of these letters in Bhrahmi script. Fort instance in Brahmi 'k' is written as '+'. So the dance depicting this symbol shall be considered as the dance depicting 'ka'. Same is the case with other letters.
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The above chart indicates the letters and their counterparts in Devanagari, Jain and Brahmi scripts.
१०२. असोयपल्लवप. च, अंबपल्लवप. च, जंबूपल्लवप. च, कोसंबपल्लवप. 'च, पल्लवप. च णामं उवदंसेंति ।
१०२. तत्पश्चात् अशोकपल्लव (अशोक वृक्ष का पत्ता), आम्रपल्लव, जम्बू (जामुन) पल्लव, कोशाम्रपल्लव इन वृक्षों के पत्तों की आकृति - जैसी रचना करके पल्लव प्रविभक्ति नामक दिव्य नाट्यविधि प्रदर्शित की।
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102. Thereafter they performed the dance exhibiting the shapes of leaves of Ashok tree, Mango tree, Jamun tree, Koshamra trees respectively.
१०३. पउमलयाप. जाव सामलयाप. च लयाप. च णामं उवदंसेंति ।
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