Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c86.71

v2.c86.71

In the same way, (1) when there is an excitement only of sentiments, (2) when two opposing sentiments, striving for mastery, are represented as being relished in one and the same place and at the same time, or (3) when a number of sentiments, of which each succeeding one puts down the preceding, they constitute respectively *bhāvōdaya*, *bhāva-saṃdhi* and *bhāva-śabalatā*. Now, all these phases of the sentiments are taken as *rasa* topically, inasmuch as they are capable of being tasted (*sarve'pi rasanād rasāḥ*). These cases do not seem to have been formally recognised by Bharata, though hinted at by him in vi 40, as we learn from Abhinava's commentary on ch. vi, which is partially