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Ashta Nayikas and Dance Forms (study)

by V. Dwaritha | 2013 | 71,711 words

This page relates ‘Examples of Madhya Vipralabdha� of the study dealing with the Ashta-Nayikas—a classification of eight kinds of “Heroines� representing the eight emotional states (avastha) employed in the classical Indian dance and performing arts (otherwise known as Natya Shastra). These Ashtanayikas reflect the eight types of romantic relationships and have hence formed the expressive subject of many classical painting, poems and dramatic plays.

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Examples of the Ѳ վ character of woman heroine: 

सङ्केतकेलिगृहमेत्य निरीक्ष्� शून्यमेणीदृशो निभृतनिःश्वसिताधराया� �
अर्द्धाक्षरं वचनमर्द्धविकाश� नेत्रं ताम्बूलमर्द्धकवलीकृतमेव तस्थ� �

saṅketakeligṛhametya nirīkṣya śūnyameṇīdṛśo nibhṛtaniḥśvasitādharāyā� |
arddhākṣara� vacanamarddhavikāśi netra� tāmbūlamarddhakavalīkṛtameva tasthau ||
[1]

When the doe eyed heroine reached the tryst and saw it empty, there was an unuttered sigh in her lips, her eyes remained half open, her words to the Sakhi remained half spoken and her betel leaves remained half chewed. {Indicative of her disinterest}

सङ्केतालयमेत्य नीरजमुखी यत्नैरनेकैर्भृशं शून्यं वीक्ष्� तमत्� खिन्नहृदया चिन्ताकुलेयं मुहु� �
� स्थतुं � � गन्तुमेव हि तथ� रन्तुं � वा वीक्षितु� � त्यक्तुं � विचेष्टितु� शि�-शि�! प्रायः समर्थाभवत् �

saṅketālayametya nīrajamukhī yatnairanekairbhṛśa� śūnya� vīkṣya tamatra khinnahṛdayā cintākuleya� muhu� |
na sthatu� na ca gantumeva hi tathā rantu� na vā vīkṣitu� na tyaktu� na viceṣṭitu� śiva-śiva! prāya� samarthābhavat ||
[2]

With great difficulty the lotus faced girl comes to the tryst and sees it empty. She feels sad and anxious. She neither sits nor goes. She does not watch the road, does not leave and does not start the motion oh shiva shiva may be that is her efficiency.

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[1]:

Rasabhas Aur Bhavabhas, 137; 鲹ñᲹī, lv. 140.

[2]:

鲹첹īԲ, lxxiv. 13.

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