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# Rasarnavasudhakara 2.520

Rasārṇavasudhākara 2.520

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.520](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.520)

raudraḥ śoka-bhayāśleṣād raudrābhāsa itīritaḥ |  
karuṇo hāsya-bhūyiṣṭhaḥ karuṇābhāsa ucyate ||

> “the furious sentiment, through the embrace of grief and fear, is declared to be a semblance of the furious;  
> the pathetic sentiment abounding in the comic is called a semblance of the pathetic.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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