Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c10.s6.8

c10.s6.8

Śaṅkuka, criticized Lollaṭa and explained the emergence of *rasa* through the dual process of *anukṛti* and *anumiti* (inference). He anticipates the whole concepts of *sādhāraṇīkaraṇa* (decontexualization, universalization) when he says that the *anukṛti* done by the actor leads the spectator to cognize this actor as the character but this cognition is different from all the four possible categories of worldly cognitions — *samyak* (real), *mithyā* (mistaken), *saṁśaya* (doubt) and *sādṛśya* (similarity). He also uses the analogy of the horse in painting (*citraturaganyāya*) to describe the trans-mundane or extraordinary nature of this process. This leads to an inference, and inferred emotion becomes *rasa*. This is made possible through the skill and training of the actor in representation, as he also has to undergo through the *anusandhāna vyāpāra*.