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DHANAPALA AS A PROSE WRITER
inhuman guiles of the lecherous foe (Vajrayudha). She had rescued Malayasundari by providing antidote after she had taken the Kimpaka fruit. She had to run a long way in her rear to ultimately catch her unconscious. With the status of a foster mother she had the courage to even rebuke the princess by saying
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'Pert dame! How did you come here? What reason prompted you to reach here? Who related to you, stays here for your sake? Who gave this wicked proposal to you? You did not feel ashamed while roaming at will on this sea beach abounding in ferocious fanna, derelicated from all your associates, O you inimical or sinister one.
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According to Dr. K. Krishnamoorthy Sentiment or Rasa is a term from diatetics, meaning taste or relish and introduced by Bharata into the field of dramatic criticism to denote the complex of aesthetic enjoyment. According to his analysis, it is a complex range of Psycho physical response man is capable of Drama or poetry is the stimulus by which multiple and even fleeting moods, feelings and responses are made to fall into a pattern around the more or less permanent nucleus of an emotion. The organised response complex of the connoisseur is termed 'rasa' and its possible varieties are eight or nine, depending on the classic number of nuclear emotions (sthayibhāvas).2
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According to Viśvanatha a Kavya is that sentence the soul whereof is the Rasa (ad Turcas ) or in other words of Viśvanätha 'Rasa or sentiment is the very soul as a succinct observation the very infuser of life'. 'रस एवात्मा साररूपतया जीवनाधायको यस्य । "
Like Bāņa speaking of the dominance of Rasa in a Katha' comparing it to a newly wedded wife full of sentiments coming to her lord of her own.
1. दुर्विनीते ! क्वागता त्वमिह ? किं तवागमनकार्यमत्रोपजातम् ? कस्तवास्मिन्नास्ते ? केन ते दुर्मतिरियं दत्ता? हीतापि न तपस्विलोकस्य निर्विवेकवनचरप्रचारदूषिते सागरोपकण्ठकच्छेऽस्मिन्नेकाकिनी यदृच्छया भ्रमन्ती उत्सादिता Briegerkar affer! re TM. Sm. ed. p. 335. LL. 14-18. L.D. Series ed. p. 196. para 309. LL. 3-6.
2. Essays on Sanskrit Criticism p. 65. Karnatak University Dharwar 1964.
3. Sah. D. I. p. 20. edited by Acharya Shri Krishna Mohon Shastri, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Varanasi 1955.
4. Ibid. pp. 21-22.
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5. स्फुरत्लालापविलासकोमला करोति रागं हृदि कौतुकाधिकम्।
रसेन शय्यां स्वयमभ्युपागता कथा जनस्याभिनवावभूरिव ॥
