Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c82.s1.13

v2.c82.s1.13

⁹ A similar untechnical use of the term *rasa* (which, however, Daṇḍin does not explain, as he does in this case) is to be found in iii 149 (or iv 26, Madras ed.), where the phrase *girāṃ rasaḥ* (=*vāgrasaḥ*) is interpreted by Taruṇavācaspati merely as *sādhutvam*. The modern commentators, misled, no doubt, by their own idea of the importance of *rasa*, read into Daṇḍin their own ideas on the subject. Daṇḍin nowhere speaks of the 'suggestion of *rasa*' (*rasa-dhvani*) as the 'soul' of poetry, but Premacandra, commenting on i 10, reads this into Daṇḍin. The *artha-rasa* in i 62 seems also to have a distinct reference to *agrāmyatā*.