Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c69.2

v1.c69.2

Side by side with these early writers, however, we have the commentators on Bharata (like Loḷḷaṭa, Śaṅkuka and others) who were bringing into prominence the aesthetic importance of *rasa*, the consideration of the moods, sentiments and feelings, which we find reacting upon and influencing even the theorists of rival persuasion (e.g. Daṇḍin, Udbhaṭa, Vāmana and Rudraṭa) who betray themselves more and more alive to the significance of this element in poetry. But the discussion of *rasa* appears to have been, so far, confined chiefly to the sphere of the dramatic art, and its bearings on poetry were not fully realised until the Dhvanikāra and Ānandavardhana had come into the field.