Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s2.29

c8.s2.29

The five Laharīs of the Dakṣiṇa Vibhāga deal respectively with the excitants (Vibhāvas), the ensuants (Anubhāvas), the involuntarily expressed feelings (Sāttvika Bhāvas, which in later Poetics are kinds of Anubhāvas), and the Auxiliary feelings (Vyabhicāri-bhāvas), as well as the dominant or permanent feeling (Sthāyi-bhāva) in relation to Bhakti conceived as a Rasa. Although orthodox Poetics itself would not, strictly speaking, regard Bhakti as a Rasa, the nomenclature and treatment are borrowed from orthodox Poetics and applied, mutatis mutandis, to the Vaiṣṇava conception of Bhakti as a Rasa. The technicalities are the same, but of course the analysis in detail is entirely novel and ingenious.¹