Rāmāyaṇacampū 2.86_43

2.86_43

Detailed commentary— / Contemplating Rāma's royal consecration, the subjects shed tears of joy. / Metre— / The metre is vasantatilakā. / Figures of speech— / (1) Simile in the first half. / (2) Poetic fancy in the second half. / (3) Hence, their independent combination. / (7) Style / (vaidarbhī/pāñcālī/gauḍī) — pāñcālī / (8) Poetic quality (ojas/prasāda/mādhurya) — prasāda / (9) Aesthetic sentiment — the wondrous. / (“Erotic, comic, pathetic, furious, heroic, terrible, / odious, and wondrous: these are remembered as the eight aesthetic sentiments in drama”) — the wondrous.