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In this connection, Abhinavagupta says (in his Abhinavabharati under N.S.VI. 69) Fear is natural in women, lowly persons and children. Genuine fear does not exist in the Superior and middling types of people; still, they display fear of Guru and Rājā. And this adds to their greatness. Ministers show their modesty or culture when they say that they are afraid of the master; as for example, the minister यौगन्धरायण, says: 'भीत garfen :', 'I am, indeed, afraid of the master' (Ratnavali 1.7). To exhibit this fear, proper appearance and gesticulations are shown so that the perceptor etc. feel convinced that he is really afraid. But the fear is not genuine, and it is feigned, still, due to its practice over a long period of time, it is relished; hence it is called Rasa. Here, fear is not a transitory feeling. It would be so if it did not last even for a while naturally." The Disgustful Sentiment
The Disgustful or Odious Sentiment (aa) is defined, in Sutra 15 of Chapter-2, as having for its permanent mood the dominant state of disgust (Jugupsa). It is created by determinants (faras) like hearing of unpleasant, offensive, impure and harmful things, or seeking them, or descerning them - things such as words, worms, puss, etc. Its consequents (S) are contracting the limbs or stopping the movement of all the limbs, narrowing down of the mouth, vomitting, spitting, shaking the limbs (in disgust) etc. Its transitory feelings (antras) are epilepsy, fierceness, fainting, death, etc. The Verse (115) from the Malati-madhava (V. 16) provides a typical illustration of the (Sentiment of loathing or disgust) in which a famished corpse is tearing away the skin from another corpse, and after eating the flesh from its different parts, with a horrible grinning, is, at last, trying to take slices of flesh from the uneven cavities of bones.
The Marvellous Sentiment
The next Rasa is the Marvellous Sentiment (II. 16). It basis
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