Rasarnavasudhakara 2.359.p2

2.359.p2

If it be argued: “Let that be so; nevertheless, if aesthetic sentiment resides in the actor, the spectator's experience will not be impossible”; no, that is not so. Does the occurrence of aesthetic sentiment in the actor arise from the presence of consequents and the like, or from the presence of determinants and the like? Not the first, because those can be produced simply by skill through practice and so forth; moreover, even when consequents are present in the spectators in a fitting manner, you do not accept that they are the substratum of aesthetic sentiment. If it arises from determinants, even then, is it by the represented Mālavikā and so on, or by his own beloved and so on who is the imitator? Not the first, because that would be inappropriate; nor the second, because vulgarity would be perceived in the actor just as in a directly seen hero.