Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c79.91

v2.c79.91

52 These English equivalents follow generally Ballantyne’s renderings.—It must be borne in mind that the vyabhicāri-bhāvas are independent bhāvas but occuring as accessory or concurrent to the principal mental state depicted, which is known as the sthāyi-bhāva. Sometimes it may happen that the vyabhicārin is principally manifested in a composition, and the sthāyin is merely awakened; such cases later theorists would call bhāvas (and not rasas) which are thus incomplete rasas. Attempts have been made to distinguish between rasa and bhāva, and this question will be discussed later on. It would appear from the enumeration of the vyabhicāri-bhāvas that the older theorists consi- The *sāttvika bhāvas*, which can be taken generally as involuntary evidences of internal feeling, are then specified as eight in number⁵³, viz., stupor (*stambha*),