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(pp. 121–124) Abhinavagupta's commentary on the portion concerning the data in the sixth chapter of the Nātyaśāstra (G.O.S.edition).
While discussing the sixth obstacle (fan) to the Rasaexperience, Abhinavagupta mentions the four major mental states of रति, क्रोध, उत्साह and शम which are associated with the four goals of life, viz. TĀ, 3751, FIA and F12, respectively, Thus the mental state of th corresponds to fish and becomes its basis. This same mental state of T again figures in Abhinayagupta's extensive discussion on the , for ha is there defined as based on the permanent mental state of
शम, and it is connected with मोक्ष. Its विभावs are knowledge of the truth, detachment, purity of mind, etc. Its 377419S are and नियम as described by पतञ्जलि in his योगसूत्र, meditation on the self, devotion, compassion towards all creatures and possession of religious signs. Its afHTTTTTHIAS are face or disgust with the world, remembrance, firmness of mind, purity in the different stages of life, fata or rigidity (of the body), horipilations, etc.
Before we attempt a resume of the passage reproduced in the Viveka, we would do well to understand the context in which Abhinavagupta states his views on the śānta Rasa. As is well-known, Abhinavagupta first discussed this question while commenting on Ānandavardhana's views (on the Sāntarasa) as presented in the Dhvanyaloka (III. 26 ff.). Thus, Abhinavagupta's views in the Locana commentary deal with the exact meaning of the expression 76017277 in Anandavardhana's definition of the Fath. In this connection, he states that the complete extinction of desires, i.e., love for sense - objects, in the form of the withdrawal of the mind from every object of sense, that alone, is happiness. The development of this, which arises from the, aesthetic enjoyment of the detachment, when
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