Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s2.30

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¹ Jiva Gosvāmin in his Priti-sandarbha introduces further refinement into the accepted theory regarding the origin and development of Rasa. He maintains, for instance, that the alaukikatva of Vibhāvas etc. and of the Sthāvin is possible only in Kṛṣṇa-rati, and not in the laukika Kāvyas which deal with the love of ordinary heroes and heroines. If the Vibhāvas etc. appear as alaukika in an ordinary Kāvya, it is not natural, but is only due to the cleverness of the poet's composition (p. 574). He also maintains that in Kṛṣṇa-rati, the locus of the Rasa is not only in the audience (Sāmājika, here the Bhakta) but also in the anukārya (the deity represented, viz. Kṛṣṇa) and in the anukartṛ, who may sometimes be the Bhakta himself (pp. 594 f).