Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s3.68
Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s3.68
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1 The Māna which looms so large in Vaiṣṇava Padāvalī has, like the word Rasa, hardly any equivalent in modern amatory vocabulary. A curious mixture of joy and sorrow, fear and hope, pride and anger, love and repulsion, it involves also an element of chalanā, an indefinable playfulness, which is wayward and yet alluring. It is not pride, anger, mere displeasure of resentment; it is neither the French "amour propre" nor Teutonic "Empfindelei". A psychological composite like this is untranslatable.