RECONSIDERATION OF ŚRĪ ŚAṄKUKA'S VIEWS ON RASA-NIṢPATTI

Śrī Śankuka is one of those ācāryas whose views on rasa-realization have been quoted by Abhinavagupta while commenting on the rasasūtra of Bharata (Nāṭyaśāstra, ch. VI. rasādhāyah). Here we will attempt a reconsideration of Śrī Śankuka's views. Śrī Śankuka disagrees with Lollața and is not inclined to take rasa as an intensified mental state (upacitaḥ

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नन्दी श्रीशङ्कुक के रसनिष्पत्ति-सिद्धान्त की पुनर्विवेचना करते हैं, जिसमें सामाजिक नट में अनुकृत भाव का अनुमान करता है; चित्रतुरग के दृष्टान्त से वह प्रतीति न सम्यक् है न मिथ्या। तौत तथा अभिनवगुप्त के आक्षेपों के विरुद्ध लेखक कहते हैं कि यहाँ अनुकृति और अनुमिति काव्यगत हैं, तार्किक नहीं। Nandi reconsiders Sri Sankuka's rasa-nispatti, in which the spectator infers an imitated mental state in the actor, a cognition neither true nor false, explained by the painted horse. Against Tauta's and Abhinavagupta's objections he argues that anukrti and anumiti here are poetic, not logical.

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