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frafaa hero has no worry or anxiety in his life; for he entrusts the administration of his kingdom or other responsibilities to his ministers. THIS is an instance in point.
As a rule the gods, as heroes, are of stried type; kings are of the type of pressa; commanders and ministers are oftea type. The Brahmins and merchants are of a type. This rule, is of coure, not rigid. For we see that tra, though a king, is of a धीरोदात्त type. On the other hand माधव in मालती-माधव though the son of a minister, is of strafsa type. Similarly जीमूतवाहन though a prince, is of the धीरशान्त type. Ha in these karikas lays down only a general rule, there may be a overlapping of types.
Here the commentary has raised an interesting question : can a hero, say of a fiiga type, become a hero of another type, or is it that these types are unchangeable? The answer is : when a person is not the hero of a poem or a drama his type can be changed. For instance, in महावीरचरित of भवभूति, परशुराम, a minor character, is first shown as belonging to atten type in his dealings with ta, the hero of the drama. Further on, while he challenges caur he is of a stara type and finally he is shown also as a franca person. So it can be laid down as a rule that in the case of characters other than that of a hero in a poem or a drama these types are changeable. But the type of a hero, in one and the same poem, can never be changed. For instance, in 3FATRA Rama, the hero, is of a धीरोदात्त type and he remains धीरोदात्त throughout the drama. In gamitin and other dramas, Rama the late type of hero is shown as killing af by a trick,
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