Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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CHAPTER FOUR
vesaras, 111 with smooth tempo, charming with the gandhāragrāmā.112 One expert, played the lute with loud sounds and soft sounds,113 with tanas114 going in order and inverted order and with distinct vyañjanadhātus. 115 Some played the three kinds of drums, 116 with the sounds of clouds with kinds of distinct na-sounds and dhom-sounds.
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Some danced with dance steps belonging to those of space and earth,117 extraordinary with various karaṇas, 118 with ever new glances of the dominant states.119 One, her bodice torn at once by violent dramatic action and by angahāras, 120 exposed her arm-pits when she was binding up her loosened hair. One exposed the top of her thigh fair with beautiful orpiment again and again, under pretext of the dramatic action daṇḍapāda. 121
One showed the circle of the navel, which resembled a tank, by the pretense of fastening the knot of her loosened garment. One, pretending to make the hand-gesture called elephant's-tooth,"122 made the sign of embracing the body One, pulling together her upper garment under the
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111 266. Vesara. Probably the same as vesaraṣāḍaba in the Bharatakośa, which says simply 'rāga. MW does not have vesara, and defines ṣāḍaba as N. of particular Rāgas.' One Ms. glosses vesara with täna. 112 266. One of the three scales. See I, n. 79; Sangitamakaranda, I. 4.9 ff.
113 267. Sakala and nişkala. See Bharatakośa, s. v. 'Melodic figures. See IV, n. 20.
114 267.
A musical composition for the lute. I, n. 482.
115 267. 116 268. Three kinds of drums: See I, n. 151 and Abhi. 2. 207 and com. 117 269. The Nś. XI. 2 defines carī as "the movement (mainly) with a single foot." The caris are aerial (ākāśika) and earthly (bhaumi). Ibid. XI. 7-12.
118 269. Karana is defined as "the two feet moving (together)' "" in Nś. XI. 2; and as "combined (movement of) hands and feet," ibid. IV. 30-34. 119 269. Dṛṣṭibhāva. See Nś. VIII. 52 ff; GOS. 68, 8. 56 ff.
120 270. An angahāra consists of 6, 7, 8 or 9 karaņas. Nś. IV. 30-34. 121 271. The Nś. XI. 43 describes a daṇḍapadacārī and in XII. 20-22 a danḍapadamandala. A mandala is a combination of carīs. 122 273. See gajadanta, Nś., IX. 148.