Rasarnavasudhakara 1.526

1.526

athaitāsāṃ rasa-niyamaḥ-
kaiśikī syāt tu śṛṅgāre rase vīre tu sātvatī |
radura-bībhatsayor vṛttir niyatārabhaṭī punaḥ | 288
śṛṅgārādiṣu sarveṣu raseṣv iṣṭaiva bhāratī ||

Now, the rule governing these with respect to aesthetic sentiments:
The Kaiśikī should be in the erotic sentiment, and the Sāttvatī in the heroic;
moreover, the Ārabhaṭī is fixed in the furious and the odious sentiments; (288)
while the Bhāratī is approved in all aesthetic sentiments, beginning with the erotic.

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289ab

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etac ca śṛṅgārādi-grahaṇaṃ taj-janyānāṃ hāsyādīnām apy upalakṣaṇam | ataś ca śṛṅgāra-hāsyayoḥ kaiśikī | vīrādbhutayoḥ sāttvatī | raudra-karuṇayor bībhatsa-bhayānakayoś ca ārabhaṭīti niyamaḥ pratīyate | tathā ca bharataḥ-

And this mention of the erotic and the others is an implicit indication of the comic and the others produced from them as well. And hence the rule is understood: Kaiśikī in the erotic and comic; Sāttvatī in the heroic and marvellous; Ārabhaṭī in the furious and pathetic, and in the odious and terrible. And so Bharata says: