Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c82.s1.72

v2.c82.s1.72

This *pratīti* of *rasa*, Abhinavagupta maintains, results from its *abhivyakti* or manifestation by the power of suggestion, and consists of a state of relish known as *rasanā*, *āsvāda* or *carvaṇā*. What is manifested is not the *rasa* itself, but its relish; not the mood itself but its reflection in the form of a subjective condition of aesthetic enjoyment in the reader. This taste or relish partakes, no doubt, of the nature of cognition; it is nevertheless different from the ordinary *laukika* forms of the process, because its means (viz., the *vibhāvas*) are not to be taken as ordinary or *laukika* causes³⁵.