Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c86.21

v2.c86.21

¹⁰ The topics dealt with in its three chapters are: I. The *rasas*, the *sthāyi-bhāvas*, the *bhāvas*, the dramatic *vṛttis*, *śṛṅgāra* and its division, the Nāyaka his classification with illustrations, the assistants, the classification of the Nāyikā, II. Characteristics of love-in-separation, of *pūrvarāga*, the ten stages of love, the *upāyas*, etc. III. The other *rasas*, viz., *hāsya*, *karuṇa*, *raudra*, *vīra*, *bhayānaka*, *bībhatsa*, *adbhuta*, and *śānta*: the four *vṛttis*, appropriate to the *rasas*.