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so all the Rasas are the roots, and on them are founded the Bhāvas.
"Evamete sthāyibhāvāḥ rasasamjñaḥ pratyavagantavyaḥ" (N. S. VI. 42 ff).
Bharata's Idea of Rasa-Development
Then Bharata explains how Rasa is developed: "We will bring the dominant emotions to the status of Rasas". To achieve this objective of showing how a dominant emotion attains to the position of Rasa, Bharata first assigns the eight permanent primary emotions to the respective Rasas, and then explains in detail the nature and the apparatus of the eight different Rasas in a very subtle, psychological way.63 Hemachandra's High Sense of Priority
When we read the second chapter of the Kavyanusāsana, we find that Hemachandra has accorded a very important position to Rasa by devoting a whole chapter to the thread - bare as well as an in-depth discussion of the all-important concept of Rasa. Indeed it speaks volumes about Hemachandra's high sense of priority that he should not only elaborate on what Bharata has said in the sixth and the seventh chapters (as also elsewhere) on Rasa, Bhava, etc., in short, on the question of the Aesthetic Experience, but that he should also try to present the entire discussion of the Rasa-problem by reproducing long passages from the Abhinavabharati relating to the four main theories of Rasa, thus enabling the student to know the pros and cons of the entire theory of Rasa. Besides, the second chapter in which this Rasa-theory is comprehensively treated, contains the largest number of Sūtras (fifty nine) in the Kavyanuśāsana.
The Process of Rasa-realization in a Nutshell
Hemachandra presents the idea of Rasa in a nutshell (11. 26) by saying that Rasa is a dominant mood (Sthayibhāva) developed fully and suggested (Abhivyaktaḥ) by means of
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