Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c82.s1.77

v2.c82.s1.77

³⁶ The *sthāyin* is so called because, in spite of its being transient like all feelings, its impression in the form of *vāsanā* or *saṃskāra* is more or less permanent, being called up when the *rasa* is cognised. Cf *Prabhā* p. 61: *antaḥkaraṇa-pravṛtti-rūpasya ratyāder āśu-vināśatve'pi saṃskārātmanā cirakāla-sthāyitvād yāvad-rasa-pratīti-kālam anusaṃdhanāc ca sthāyitvam*. But possibly it was originally called *sthāyin* because it constituted the permanent mood or sentiment in the composition, which nothing akin to it or opposed to it could overcome, but which could only be strengthened by other *bhāvas*. But the *sthāyin* itself is not *rasa*; it must be *vyakti-viśiṣṭa* and *vibhāvādi-melaka*, and thus made *carvaṇôpayogī* or relishable, Govinda p. 62. The ultimate relish of *rasa* is free from the contact of the *sthāyin*, as it is of the *vibhāvas*.