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SAHRDAYĀLOKA The NLRK. then quotes yet another definition of mukha-sandhi as - (NLRK. kā. 68, pp. 55, ibid)
"yasminn ākhyāna-bījasya śleşeņa cchāyayā'pi vā, kriyate kīrtanam sadbhis
tan mukham parikīrtitam." . 68. NLRK i.e. Where bīia or seed of the theme is narrated either by double-meaning words or by some other beautiful means, it is termed 'mukha' by wise people.
Thus bīja is defined and illustrated earlier, observes the NLRK. Then 12 limbs of the mukha-sandhi are enumerated as - upaksepa etc. following the NS. of Bharata. These are - Upaksepa, parikara, parinyāsa, vilobhana, yukti, prāpti, samādhāna, vidhāna, paribhāvanā, udbheda, karana and bheda. (NS. 21/53-54)
The Pratimukha Sandhi is defined after NS. 21/38. The 13 limbs here are enumerated as - vilāsa, parisarpa, vidhuta, tāpana, narma, narma-dyuti, pragamana, virodha, puryupāsana, puspa, vajra, upanyāsa and varņa-samhāra.
'Garbha' in NLRK. is again defined after NS. But the NLRK observes (vștti before - kā. 87, pp. 71) - nātakasya madhyatvād garbhah. 'Garbha' sandhi is so termed as it happens in the middle of a play. This is duly illustrated. The NLRK. also adds (pp. 72, ibid) : nāțakā"dau vastudvayam bhavati, vidhir va nised ho vā. In the theme of a play two things are possible - either vidhi or affirmation or nişedha i.e. negation. 'Vidhi' is said to be of the nature of achievement, and nişedha is of the nature of loss : tatra prāpti-rūpo vidhih, a-prāpti-rūpo nişedhah. NLRK 88 (pp. 72, ibid) observes :
"prāptirūpo yathā bījam ārabdham, rakṣasām kşayah, nītam sītā'pahāreņa.
rāmasya’vaśya-kāryatām." i.e. Vidhi or prāpti is illustrated as in the fact of the killing of demons. This is the bīja and due to this, when Sitā is abducted by Rāvana, Rāma's unavoidable task takes the form of killing all the demons.
a-prāpti-rūpa is illustrated as in the Udayana-kathā, when the hero is lost in love of Vāsavadattā, and his kingdom was attacked by enemies. But even here when Udayana did not wake up for revenge, Yangadharāyaṇa burned Lāvāņaka and under this pretext concealed Vāsavadatta.
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