लास्य — {lāsya} n. dancing, a dauce (esp. accompanied with instrumental music and singing), a dance representing the emotions of love dramatically (this was at one time a principal part of the drama, and as such accord. to Bharata and the Daśa-rūpa consisted of 10 divisions or Aṅgas, viz. {geya-pada}, {sthita-pāṭhya}, {āsīna}, {puṣpa-gaṇḍikā}, {pracchedaka}, {tri-gūḍha} or {tri-mūḍhaka}, {saindhava}, {dvigūḍhaka} or {vimūḍhaka}, {uttamóttamaka}, and {ukta-pratyukta}##including also a style of dramatic composition in which there is abrupt transition from Sanskṛit to Prākṛit and from Prākṛit to Sanskṛit##the term {lāsya} is also applied to the Nāch {ṇautch} dance of the Indian dancing girls, consisting chiefly of gesticulation with a shuffling movement of the feet forwards and backwards, as invented by Pārvati and opposed to the boisterous masculine dance called Tāṇḍava practised by Siva and his followers##IW. 467) &c##m. a dancer##N. of a king##({ā}), f. a dancing girl
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