Rasarnavasudhakara 2.359.p5

2.359.p5

Others, however, state the solution otherwise: “In the world, when durable states are inferred from causes like women and so forth, sensitive persons possessing skill through practice find that, in poetry and drama, the durable states such as love—manifested by elements designated by terms like 'determinant' (since they do not determine any specific restriction of acceptance or rejection of relationship, such as 'these are mine alone,' 'these are an enemy's alone,' 'these are a neutral person's alone,' or 'these are not mine alone,' 'these are not an enemy's alone,' 'these are not a neutral person's alone'), which are perceived universally as related to oneself and related to another, and which abide in the form of latent impressions—being relished after the manner of a blended beverage, creating an extraordinary wonder, shooting forth, as it were, supreme bliss, attain the form of aesthetic sentiment.”