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may arise from the lack of some necessary ingredients as pointed out by Bharata.
This inappropriateness differs in its nature from Rasa to Rasa. Thus, for example, when the emotion of love of a woman is developed with reference to an adulterer or with reference to numerous paramours or low characters, it becomes generally disgusting and does not attain to the position of the शंङ्गाररस. Again, if a man's incestuous love is demonstrated with reference: to the wife of a sage or preceptor or a king, the extreme immorality of this love does not permit it to reach the position of the sisrta. Again, if the emotion of love is depicted only in the lover (man or woman) and not in the beloved, then for want of response, it falls short of the necessary ingredient of reciprocity, and the unilateral love fails to develop into the full-fledged Srngärarasa. Similarly, the amorous behaviour of a monk or ascetic or hermit, especially in a monk's robes, presents a ludicrous spectacle, and the description of the same is sure to yield a debased interest. Owing to these reasons, such descriptions are considered as un toward because of inapposite time, place or situation, and as such, they result in Suggestion of only a Semblance (Abhāsa) of śrngārarasa..
Visvanatha, Bhojaraja and others add the description of feelings of Love between animals, birds, insects, etc., to the list of semblance of Rasa. But Vidyadhara, in his Ekavali, does not agree with them. 10 2 He thinks that the existence of the Vibhāvas and Anubhāvas of a sentiment is as much a reality among animals as it is among human beings.
On the same principle, Humour becomes debased if the object of ridicule is the one who deserves worship and veneration. Similarly, if grief strikes a recluse, the pathos will be unreal, If wrath or fighting zeal are depicted towards sages, they result in semblance or pseudo-suggestion. If a coward or eunuch starts fighting or shows bellicosity: the resulting Heroic will be a semblance of the real Heroic. Conversely, if a well-known hero shows timidity, the Terrific Rasa will be a
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