Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c83.30

v2.c83.30

Against the attack of the systems which deny the existence of the suggested sense, the old argument that nothing can be denied which is not apprehended is applied; but apart from such purely scholastic objections, the real grounds for postulating the suggested sense are, the consideration in the first place, that being a profound verity, it can positively be established by an examination of aesthetic facts as well as facts of experience ; and in the second place, that, there are some elements of poetry (e. g. the *rasa*) which cannot be satisfactorily explained asr evealed by *abhidhā*, *lakṣaṇā*, *anumāna* or similar other means.