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Rasa-nispatti-vicāra in Abhinavagupta
1525 The conception of the three guņas, belonging, in particular, to the sāmkhya and yoga systems, is accepted, without notable modifications, by the whole of Indian Thought...
(b)- Druti, vistara and vikāsa are each connected with certain Rasas by later Indian theorists. Druti is the pure state of consciousness of śrngāra, karuna and śānta; Vistara of vīra, raudra and bībhatsa; Vikāsa of hāsya, adbhuta and bhayānaka. cf. Dhv. Ā. L. Comm., p. 206. Rajah predominates in druti, tamas in vistara, and sattva in vikāsa. M.C., p. 74 : yadā hi rajaso gunasya drutiḥ, tamaso vistarah, sattvasyati-vikäsah, tadānim bhogah svarūpam labhate. "It is when rajas is in fluidity, tamas in dilatation, and sattva in full expansion that fruition is realized."
ft. note 1, pp. 47, on "prakāśa”-reads as : "1-a)- The expression sattvódreka is reproduced almost without change by Mammaa., p. 74- sattvódreka-prakāśā"nandamaya-samvid-viếrānti-laksanena. It has been commented upon in several ways. I have followed, in the translation, the commentary of Vidyācakravartin (K. P., Trivendrum Sanskrit Series, LXXXVII) : sattvódrekāt yau prakāśā”nandau tanmayyām samvidi samādhi-vștti-rūpāyām yā yoginām viśrāntir vigalita-sakalaśramā nistarangeņávasthitiḥ tat-sadrśena. M. C. p. 74 comments on: sattvódrekena prakāśaḥ prakato ya anandah tanmayi yā samvit tasyām viśrāntiḥ, sā satattvam paramartho yasya sa tathā. Referring to Rasa, A.G. says in Dh. Ā.L., p. 183, that it is "rajastamo-vaicitryánuviddha-sattvamaya-nija-cit-svabhāva-nirvștiviśrānti-laksanah.” The famous definition of the aesthetic experience given by Viśvanātha in his Sāhityadarpana, adds nothing to the conception of A. G. and Bhatta Nāyaka. Viśvanātha says:
"sattvódrekād akhanda-svaprakāśānanda- cinmayaḥ, vedyàntara-sparśa-śūnyo brahmā"svāda-sahodarah. lokóttara-camatkāra-prāṇaḥ kaiścit pramātřbhiḥ, svākāravad abhinnatvenàyam
āsvādyate rasaḥ." "Rasa is tasted by the qualifind persons (i.e. qui rationem artis intelligunt). It is tested by virtue of the emergence of sattva. It is made up of a full intelligence,
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