Rasarnavasudhakara 1.495

English (machine translation) 1.495

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1.495

Primary fear-induced laughter, for example: / Pursued with dreadful howls by the temple dog, recently arrived, which detests any deformed appearance, / retreating backwards with clumsy strides, / stammering hurriedly in confused syllables: “S-s-save, p-protect!”— / seeing Bhṛṅgiriṭi in this state, may the smiling-faced Paśupati protect you!

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Here, because the laughter of Paśupati—caused by Bhṛṅgiriṭi's deformed appearance, his clumsy backward walking, and his uttering letters topsy-turvy as in 'Save me, save me, save me!'—is not subordinate to any other aesthetic sentiment, it is the primary [variety] arising from fear and laughter.

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Subordinate to another aesthetic sentiment by speech arising from fear and laughter, as in the Ratnāvalī:

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Vidūṣaka: 'How has the Queen not been gracious, seeing that we are standing here today with our bodies still unbroken?'

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Rasārṇavasudhākara — Siṃhabhūpāla, Sanskrit