Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s2.69

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All the elements mentioned above contribute towards developing the dominant or permanent emotion, the Sthāyi-bhāva, into its corresponding state of relish, called Rasa. This Sthāyi-bhāva or the root-emotion is classified into eight categories in orthodox Poetics: namely, Rati (love), Hāsa (mirth), Śoka (sorrow), Krodha (anger), Utsāha (energy), Bhaya (fear), Jugupsā (disgust), Vismaya (wonder), to which some would add a ninth, namely, Nirveda (self-disparagement). To these correspond respectively the eight or nine orthodox Rasas, namely, Śṛṅgāra (the Erotic), Hāsya (the Comic), Karuṇa (the Pathetic), Raudra (the Furious), Vīra (the Heroic), Bhayānaka (the Terrible), Bibhatsa (the Disgustful), Adbhuta (the Marvellous), and the ninth Śānta (the Quietistic). Rūpa Gosvāmin accepts all these, but his classification and treatment are different.