Rasarnavasudhakara 3.57

3.57

atha vidhānaṃ-
sukha-duḥkha-karaṃ yat tu tad vidhānaṃ budhā viduḥ ||

Now, arrangement (vidhāna): / But that which produces pleasure and pain the wise know as arrangement.

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yathā tatraiva [bāla-rāmāyaṇe] prathamāṅke, sītā (sa-sādhvasautsukyam)-ammo rakkhaso tti suṇia saccaṃ sajjhasa-kodahalāṇaṃ majjhe baṭṭāmi | (aṃho rākṣasa iti śrutvā satyaṃ sādhvasa-kautūhalayor antare varte |) ity upakramya sītā-tādasadānaṃdamissāṇaṃ antare ubabisissaṃ (tāta-śatānanda-miśrāṇām antare upavekṣyāmi) | (1.42 padyāt pūrvam] ity antena sītāyāḥ adṛṣṭa-pūrva-rākṣasa-darśanena sukha-duḥkha-vyatikarākhyānād vidhānam |

As in that very work [Bālarāmāyaṇa], in the first act: Sītā (with apprehension and curiosity): 'Ah, hearing that it is a Rākṣasa, in truth I am caught between dread and curiosity.' Beginning with this, up to: Sītā: 'I will sit near Father Śatānanda Miśra' [before verse 1.42]—because of the description of the mixture of pleasure and pain through Sītā's sight of a Rākṣasa unseen before, there is arrangement.