Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c84.3

v2.c84.3

In expounding this theory, he tried to explain clearly how the *vyakti* or *vyañjanā* of the *dhvani*-theorists could be applied to the case of the manifestation of *rasa*, thus correlating the *rasa*-doctrine with the *dhvani*-theory. He defined the concept of *rasa* and its place in poetic theory, and furnished a brilliant aesthetic explanation of a phenomenon which had already taxed the ingenuity of many a previous thinker on the subject.