Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c86.53

v2.c86.53

and indispensable ingredients as the hero, the heroine, the rival hero and their adjuncts, and (2) the Enhancing (*uddīpana*), viz., such conditions of time, place and circumstance as serve to foster the *rasa*, e.g. the rising of the moon, the cry of the cuckoo etc. in the case of the erotic sentiment. The *anubhāvas* or the Ensuants, which follow and strengthen a mood, comprise such outward manifestations of feeling as side-long glances, a smile, a movement of the body, or such involuntary action of sympathetic realisation of the persons depicted (*sāttvika*)³¹ as fainting (*pralaya*), change of colour (*vaivarnya*), trembling (*vepathu*) etc., which are, again dogmatically classified into eight varieties. There are other feelings of a more or less transitory nature, which accompany or interrupt the permanent mood without, however, supplanting it; and these are known, as we have noted, by the name of Accessories or *vyabhicāri-bhāvas*. These are likened to the servants following a king or to the waves of the sea, whereby the dominant mood is understood as the king and the sea respectively, and classified elaborately into thirty-three categories, first mentioned by Bharata³² and implicitly accepted by his followers.