Dhvanyalokalocana 76
English (machine translation) 76
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76.2
When an aesthetic relish having the same substratum is contradictory to the permanent emotion,
it should be given a different substratum; even when it is developed, there is no fault.
76.3
A conflicting factor is of two kinds: one that conflicts through sharing a single locus, and one that conflicts through immediate succession. Among these, as for the conflicting factor that shares the same locus as the dominant, principal aesthetic relish present in an extensive composition—such as the fearsome sentiment with the heroic sentiment, with regard to propriety—it should be assigned a different locus. Its locus should be placed in the opponent of the narrative hero who is the locus of that heroic sentiment. And that being so, whatever nourishment is given even to that conflicting factor is faultless. For when an excess of fear is described with respect to the opponent, the abundance of the hero's statesmanship, valor, and the like is all the more illumined. And this has been clearly demonstrated in my *Arjunacarita* on the occasion of Arjuna's descent into the netherworld.
76.4
In this way it has been shown how there is no opposition when [a sentiment] that is opposed in co-inherence becomes subordinate to the enduring aesthetic relish in a continuous work. But to explain the second [kind of opposed sentiment], it is said: