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SAHRDAYĀLOKA tapasvi-bhagavad-vipra-prabhștişvatra nāyakaḥ, eko yatra bhaved dhrsto hāsyam tacchuddham ucyate. āśritya kañcana janam sankīrņam iti tadviduḥ. (266) vịttam bahūnām dhțstānām sankīrṇam kecidūcire tat punarbhavati dvyankam athavaikānka-nirmitam." (267) vikstam tu vidur yatra șandha-kañcaki-tāpasāḥ bhujanga-cāraṇa-bhata-prabhrter veșa-vāg-yutāḥ.” (268) “idam tu sankīrṇena gatārtham iti muninā přthan noktam.” 'Bhāņa’ is defined in the NS. (XVIII. 108-11) as - "ātmā’nubhūta-samsī para-samśraya-varṇanā-viseșastu . vividhāśrayo hi bhāṇaḥ, vijñeyastv eka-hāryaś ca. (108) paravacanam ātmasamstham prativacanair uttarottaraarathitai) ākāśa-puruṣa-kathitaiḥ angavikārain abhinayaiśca. (109) dhārta-vița-samprayojyo nānāvasthántarātmakaścaiva ". ekánko bahu-ceștaḥ, satatam kāryo budhair bhāṇaḥ. (110) bhāṇasyā’pi hi nikhilam laksanam uktam tathā"gamānugatam, vīthyāḥ samprati nikhilam kathayāmi yathākramam viprāḥ. (111) DR. Bhat translates : (pp. 151, 152, ibid) ..
(108) The Bhāņa is to be known as (a play) acted by one character, and it has a varied basis : (a) that which narrates one's own experiences, and (b) that which particularly describes some one else's. (Dr. Bhat reads in a foot-note, here - "Etymologically, Bhāna is so called because the representation is carried to the audience by a single character; "ekena påtrena haraniyah, sāmājika-hrdayam prāpayitavyaḥ arthaḥ yatra", also, because the speeches of characters absent on the stage are voiced here by a single character: "ekamukhena eva bhānyante uktimantaḥ kriyante a-praviştāḥ api pătra-viśeşāḥ yatra." - See Abhinava, op. cit. p. 449.]
(109) - (And this latter is done) by (conveying) the speech of the other addressed to oneself by means of replies (prativacana), connected in (a series of questions and) answers, as (if) they are given by an imaginary person (ākāśa-puruṣa), and by means of gestures of the limbs and by (other forms of) acting.
(110) The Bhāna is to be presented through the (single character of) dhūrta or vita and is to comprise his various conditions. The wise should always construct the Bhāņa as depicting varied activities but having (only) one act.
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