Rasarnavasudhakara 1.528
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1.528
in the terrible, the odious, and the furious is the Ārabhaṭī;
and the Bhāratī is to be known as relying on the pathetic and the marvellous."
1.528.p1
(Nāṭyaśāstra 20.73–74)
1.528.p2
Here, the statement that the Sāttvatī enters the furious is to indicate that the nourishing of the battlefield-hero—the direct opponent of the furious—occurs through the divisions of the Sāttvatī such as converse, and not for the hero of generosity or the hero of compassion. Therefore, there is no conflict with the rule. And the statement that the Bhāratī has the pathetic and the marvellous as its scope is to indicate that those two are nourished mainly by means of verbal initiatives. Hence the commonality of the Bhāratī to all aesthetic sentiments is entirely established.
1.528.p3
Some discerning scholars, however, interpreting this verse of Bharata
which lays down the rule (289)
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- Rasārṇavasudhākara — Siṃhabhūpāla, Sanskrit