[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Arts, Poetics, Architecture & Lexicography](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art) › [Dramaturgy and Theory of Theatre](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya) › [Rasarnavasudhakara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara) › 3.57 # Rasarnavasudhakara 3.57 Rasārṇavasudhākara 3.57 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.57) atha vidhānaṃ- sukha-duḥkha-karaṃ yat tu tad vidhānaṃ budhā viduḥ || > Now, arrangement (vidhāna): / But that which produces pleasure and pain the wise know as arrangement. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [3.57.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.57.p1) 37a ### [3.57.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.57.p2) yathā tatraiva \[bāla-rāmāyaṇe\] prathamāṅke, sītā (sa-sādhvasautsukyam)-ammo rakkhaso tti suṇia saccaṃ sajjhasa-kodahalāṇaṃ majjhe baṭṭāmi | (aṃho rākṣasa iti śrutvā satyaṃ sādhvasa-kautūhalayor antare varte |) ity upakramya sītā-tādasadānaṃdamissāṇaṃ antare ubabisissaṃ (tāta-śatānanda-miśrāṇām antare upavekṣyāmi) | (1.42 padyāt pūrvam\] ity antena sītāyāḥ adṛṣṭa-pūrva-rākṣasa-darśanena sukha-duḥkha-vyatikarākhyānād vidhānam | > As in that very work \[Bālarāmāyaṇa\], in the first act: Sītā (with apprehension and curiosity): 'Ah, hearing that it is a Rākṣasa, in truth I am caught between dread and curiosity.' Beginning with this, up to: Sītā: 'I will sit near Father Śatānanda Miśra' \[before verse 1.42\]—because of the description of the mixture of pleasure and pain through Sītā's sight of a Rākṣasa unseen before, there is arrangement. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara~en-mt.3.57) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.3.57) · Pramāṇa