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Rasarnavasudhakara 2.522

Rasārṇavasudhākara 2.522

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Sanskrit

2.522

atra śṛṅgāra-rasasya arāgād aneka-rāgāt tiryag-rāgāt mleccha-rāgāc ceti caturvidham ābhāsa-bhūyastvam | tatra arāgas tv ekatra rāgābhāvaḥ | tena rasasyābhāsatvaṃ, yathā-
sa rāmo naḥ sthātā na yudhi purato lakṣmaṇa-sakho
bhavitrī rambhoru tridaśa-vadana-glānir adhunā |
prayāsyaty evoccair vipadam acirād vānara-camūr
laghiṣṭhedaṃ ṣaṣṭhākṣara-para-vilopāt paṭha punaḥ ||

Here, the preponderance of the semblance of the erotic sentiment is of four kinds: from absence of love, from multiple loves, from animal love, and from barbarian love. Among these, 'absence of love' is the lack of affection in one party. Through this, there is the status of being a semblance of sentiment; as in:
"That Rāma, accompanied by Lakṣmaṇa, will not stand before us in battle; / now, O woman with thighs like plantain stems, faintness will come to the faces of the gods. / The monkey army will soon go indeed to dire calamity: / read this, lowest one, again, omitting every sixth syllable!"

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2.522.p1

(ha.nā. 10.12)

(Hanumannāṭaka 10.12)

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2.522.p2

atra sītāyāṃ rāvaṇa-viṣaya-rāgātyantābhāvād ābhāsatvam |

Here, because there is an absolute absence of love directed towards Rāvaṇa on Sītā's part, it is a semblance [of sentiment].

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2.522.p3

nanv ekatra rāgābhāvād rasasyābhāsatvaṃ na yujyate | prathamam ajātānurāge vatsa-rāje jātānurāgāyāḥ ratnāvalyāḥ-

[Objection:] Surely it is not proper that sentiment becomes a semblance from the lack of love in one party. In the case of Ratnāvalī, whose love was born for the King of Vatsa before love had arisen in him:

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