रत्नावली नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - शास्त्रीय नाटिका रत्न सम्पूर्ण ४ अङ्क सान्वय सटीक)

450 रत्नावली
"Various devices are recognized to help the movement of
the intrigue, five of which are classed as internal junctures
(ántara-sandhi)...The Nátyashástra ignores the term internal
junctures but has the term special junctures or divisions
(sandhyantara) which includes the dream, the letter and
the message among many other miscellaneous elements
[Cf. :—Nátyashástra, Benares Edition, Chapter XXI, 48-51]...
The picture is used in the Ratnávali as the mode by which
the heroine satisfies her longings for her beloved, while Vásava-
dattá discovers Vatsa's infidelity through seeing the portrait
of Ságariká, painted beside that of the king by the mischievous
Susangatá....( Act II. Pp. 113, 116, 179, 185) Other devices
might have been included in the list such as that of assuming
a disguise on the stage, a device used by Harsha in the
Ratnávali..." (Keith, Sanskrit Drama, Pp. 302-303.)
"Similarly the theory recognizes as a separate element
the pro-episode (Patákásthánaka), an equivocal speech, or
situation which foreshadows an event whether near at hand
or distant. The Nátyashástra distinguishes four kinds of
equivoke...Thus in Act III of Ratnávali, when Vatsa hastens
to save Vásavadattá, as he thinks, from hanging herself, he
finds to his equal joy and surprise that he has rescued none
other than Ságariká herself...Finally we may have a double
entendre...in the Ratnávali Vatsa playfully suggests that his
earnest gaze on the creeper, which has borne blossoms out of
season may cause jealousy in the queen ; his words apply