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mother, the devotion for God or a sage or the loyalty for a king are all put under the general category of रति and is condemned to the position of a mere भाव ! As मम्मट says :
रतिर्देवादिविषया व्यभिचारी तथाऽञ्जितः
भावः प्रोक्तः ॥ काव्यप्रकाश IV. 35
and remarks :-कान्ताविषया तु ( रतिः ) व्यक्ता शृङ्गारः ॥
Now this strange view does not stand to reason. It is a universal experience that a mother's love for her child attains a zenith not reached by any other kind of love. We fail to understand, therefore, how, under these circumstances, love between a man and a woman alone should be exalted to a supreme place in literature.
implicitly follows in this respect the conventional view of and other standard rhetoricians and quotes instances of रति as a भाव.
The devotion of a man to God is illustrated in the verse 96:
There seems to be a limited number of atoms (containing the quality of quietude) in this world, for after you were created, not a single person was created who is similar to you.
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The devotion or reverence for a sage is illustrated in the verse 97.
Those only can be termed as houses that are purified by the dust of your feet."
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It is said that there are two kinds of शृङ्गाररस : (i) संभोग and (ii) विप्रलम्भ; but as हेमचन्द्र himself says this is not strictly true. Really speaking, these two kinds belong to the रति ( स्थायिभाव ) which is of the nature of a tie of affection; these two kinds, संभोग and विप्रलम्भ,
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