 | 1828 - 1102 pàgines
...remarkable that he is always a Brahman. According to the technical definition of his attributes, " he is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire." The heroine has her companion and confidante ; and female devotees play a leading part in several dramas;... | |
 | 1828 - 878 pàgines
...remarkable that he is always a Brahman. According to the technical definition of his attributes, " he is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire." The heroine has her companion and confidante ; and female devotees play a leading part in several dramas;... | |
 | 1835 - 494 pàgines
...facetiousness does not take a very lofty flight. According to the technical definition of his attributes, he is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire. The Nayikd, or heroine, has always her companion and confidante, and the most appropriate personage... | |
 | Kālidāsa - 1856 - 306 pàgines
...regulation, the Jester is always a Brahman, and, therefore of a caste superior to the king himself; yet his business is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire. He is represented as grey-haired, hump-backed, lame, and hideously ugly. In fact, he is a species of... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 908 pàgines
...rank ; he is always lively, sometimes witty, and, according to the definition of his attributes, he is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire. He is, curiously enough, always a Br&hman. The plays have eight, or, according to some, nine rasa,... | |
 | John Garrett - 1871 - 978 pàgines
...facetiousness does not take a very lofty flight. According to the technical definition of his attributes he is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire.— WILSON, XI, p. xlvii. Vidyadharas— (Vidyadharas), in Buddhist mythology are the bards ef heaven,... | |
 | John Garrett (director of public instruction in Mysore.) - 1873 - 174 pàgines
...facetiousness does not take a very lofty flight. According to the technical definition of his attributes he is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire. — WILSON, XI, p. xlvii. Vidyadharas — (Vidya'dharas), in Buddhist mythology are the bards ef heaven,... | |
 | John Garrett - 1873 - 174 pàgines
...facetiousness does not take a very lofty flight. According to the technical definition of his attributes he is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire. — WILSON, XI, p. xlvii. Vidyadharas — (Vidyadharas), in Buddhist mythology are the bards ef heaven,... | |
 | Sir Monier Monier-Williams - 1875 - 640 pàgines
...and soon become possessed of her secret. By a curious regulation, the jester is always a Brahman ; yet his business is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire. Strictly he should be represented as grey-haired, hump-backed, lame, and ugly. He is a species of buffoon,... | |
 | Kālidāsa (Śakuntalā.) - 1876 - 426 pàgines
...This character is to the hero, what the female companion and confidante is to the heroine (nayika) of the play. He is his constant attendant, and, by...say, of a caste higher than that of the king himself; yet his business is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire. S1. says he is... | |
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... definition of his attributes, he is to excite mirth by being ridiculous in person, age, and attire. 
