Location of Rasa

The Natyasästra of Bharata is the oldest work on aesthetics in Sans- krit. Of all the chapters in this work the sixth chapter on rasa is the most significant as it deals with the theory of literary beauty-the rasa theory. The two traditional verses incorporated in this chapter, numbered 32 and 33, and the prose

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कुलकर्णी पूछते हैं कि रस का स्थान कहाँ है। अभिनवगुप्त आस्वाद सामाजिक में मानते हैं, नट तो केवल पात्र है; भट्टनायक भी यही कहते हैं; रामचन्द्र-गुणचन्द्र का 'नाट्यदर्पण' नट के आस्वाद की सम्भावना भी स्वीकारता है। लेखक नाट्यशास्त्र के श्लोकों को परवर्ती टीकाओं के मतों के साथ तौलते हैं। Kulkarni asks where rasa resides. Abhinavagupta places the relish in the spectator, the actor being only a vessel; Bhattanayaka agrees; the Natyadarpana of Ramachandra and Gunachandra allows that an actor may relish too. Kulkarni weighs the Natyashastra verses against the later commentarial positions.

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