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SAHDAYĀLOKA Sā. composed this work called Bhāva-prakāśana. In this first 'bhāva' is treated. Then its divisions and sub-divisions are discussed. Then the expertise needed to present these bhāvas with the meaning aimed at by them is discussed and the relation of utility between them is discussed. How bhāvas whether 'cara' or 'sthira' become instrumental in rasa is then shown. The appearance, vision connected with the particular bhāva, different characteristics of sight, their strength at times due to mutual relation of bhāvas, are all discussed. These go to make twelve approaches to the topic of bhāva.
Then 'rasa' is discussed along with its divisions and sub-divisions (or, varieties and sub-varieties), their birth, name, their mutual causality, their relation of principal and subordinate., their mutual relation due to samkara i.e. mixed type their mixture, their special achievement, mixing up and birth, their suggestivity or capacity of being directly stated, their favourableness (to one another) or opposition, the time, rules, colour, preciding deity, their basic emotion, passing feelings, their drsti etc. are discussed. Thus twenty angles concerning rasa are discussed in the B.P.
This is followed by a discussion on the relationship between word and meaning, their varieties, the vșttis, and then of the types, in all thirty, of rūpakas and uparūpakas.
B.P. observes that the definitions of these topics are given either following the order, or the propriety concerned. Subtle observations mark all this presentation. With this, the discussion on bhāvas starts (pp. 3, 4, etc., ibid) :
“bhāvah syād bhāvanam bhūtir atha bhāvayatīti vā. padártho vā kriyā sattā vikāro mānasóthavā, vibhāvāś cā'nubhāvāśca
sthāyino vyabhicāriņaḥ." Bhāva is primarily 'bhāvana'. The idea is that through the feelings of happiness and unhappiness of the 'anukārya' Rāma and the like, the causing (or rousing) of (identical) bhāvas or feelings in the heart of the sāmājika i.e. man of taste is called 'bhāva'. So bhāva is "causing i.e. bhāvana" of the bhāva of the samājika.
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