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imitated or represented on the stage, and that some rasas are pleasurable and some others sorrowful (p 47) We beg to differ In the NS-I when the demons rise against the performance, Brahman explains that local bhavas are not to be confused with dramatic emotions Art is not life It is life plus something It is above life It is 'ananda', which is above worldly happiness and unhappiness This suggests Bharata's concept of dramatic art The expression (pp 48) "sthayyeva tu raso bhavet" (or rasībhavet) as quoted by Dr Kulkarni clearly suggests that it is the sthayin presented through the medium of art, that is the real stuff of which drama is made of There can be no other explanation As to the terms such as "sthayi-prabhavah" and "sthäyyätmakah", the real difference is (p 48) that srngära and karuna in loka produce different responses in different people at worldly level as the case may be, but as for häsya and or other rasas the general response of all concerned is identical, whether in everyday life or art Therefore they are "sthayyätmaka" as against "sthāyi-prabhava" On p 49, Dr Kulkarni explains Sankuka's position We may add that the expression 'vastu-saundarya-bala' also supports this on p 50-51 the views of Siddhicandra are quoted For us Siddhicandra was partly under Jagannatha's influence and partly had a confused view when he discards some rasas totally We feel like totally discarding such confused wnters who have a tendency to create problems rather than to solve them He does not deserve mentioning along with A., Abhinavagupta and Jagannatha
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Next topics discussed by Dr Kulkarni is "Rasa-Alaukika" The presentation 1 neat and thorough as can be expected of him He has quoted pointedly fron Abhinavagupta and Locana. No scholar-including Dr Raghavan and Dr K. Krishnamoorthy-has presented this thesis so thoroughly and so clearly He has pointed out that Abhinavagupta (p. 65) has used the term 'a-laukika' in different shades He has ably concluded (p 67) that both Abhinavagupta and A are 'autonomists' in a wider sense of the term We fully accept this conclusion Actually we are of the firm opinion that nobody in the westphilosopher or a literary critic-has scaled the heights reached by Abhinavagupta and A Actually they have stood higher-atyatisthadas'angulam-as compared to any known great writer in either East or West The next article-Rasa and its pleasurable Nature' follows as a natural corollary from the earlier article We agree with Dr Kulkarni's conclusions As to the next article (p 80-89)-"Rasa and its Aáraya" we generally agree with Dr Kulkarni's observations, but as to Bharata's position we beg to differ
