History of Sanskrit Poetics c6.81

c6.81

There were some writers who held that *adbhuta* (wonderful) was the only *rasa*. The साहित्यदर्पण (III. 2-3) states that his great-great-grand-father Nārāyaṇa held that *camatkāra* or *vismaya* was the essence of *rasa* and quotes what धर्मदत्त says in his work (vide p. 289 n. 3).