signations. [The Sāhityadarpaṇa recommends the following
eight places for lovers to meet: a field, a garden, temple-
ruins, the house of a procuress, a forest, a place of
pilgrimage, a cemetery, the bank of rivers (&c.); but
thinks that occasionally any dark place will do: kṣetraṃ vāṭī
bhagnadevālayo dūtīgṛhaṃ vanam . mālayaṃ ca śmaśānaṃ ca nadyādīnāṃ
taṭī tathā . evaṃ kṛtābhisārāṇāṃ puṃścalīnāṃ vinodane . sthānā-
nyaṣṭau tathā dhvāntacchanneṣu kvacidāśrayaḥ. The rhetorico-musical
work Saṅgītadāmodara improves the enumeration in men-
tioning: ‘a bower, a grove, a park, a ditch (without water),
a place where water is distributed, an attic, a hemp-field,
the bank of a river, a thorny spot, a building ground, a
house in the neighbourhood of a town, the ruins of a col-
lege and so on’, these having been the places where the
cowherdesses made their appointments with Kṛṣṇa: ni-
kubjakānanodyānanirambuparikhāprapāḥ . aṭṭālikāśaṇakṣetradhunī-
rodhāḥ (Ms. Paris. B. 155; Ms. E. I. H. 1486: aṭṭālikā
gavākṣaśca--‘a window’--dhunīrodhaḥ) sakaṇṭakāḥ . vāṭī-
parisarāgārapaścādbhagnamaṭhādayaḥ . ete pradeśāḥ saṃketasthānāni
muravidviṣaḥ . yatrā- (Ms. E. I. H. atrā-) bhisāraṃ kurvanti devyā
vallavavallabhāḥ. Compare e. g. the third story of the Vetala-
pañchavinśati.--Also called saṃketasthāna.] Comp. also the
following article. E. abhisāra and sthāna.