160. 180 CHAPTER IIİ

180 CHAPTER IIİ

No. 104 p. 334 and No, 108, p. 336 of the G. O. S. If these karikas had been in the manuscript before him, he would not have quoted them in full.

IV. It was only the last kārikā "Evam ete Rasāh" which was there in his manuscript. To it he refers and comments on it (A. Bh. 342). 1. OPPOSITION TO SANTA ON TEXTUAL BASIS.

Orthodox followers of Bharata, to whom only the later recension of Bharata's text was available, rejected Santa on the basis that Bharata does not define Santa, nor does he state the situation (Vibhava) etc. in the context of which it is to be presented. This view is referred to in the Locana (176) and the Avaloka on the Dasarupaka (92).

ITS CRITICISM.

In the latter it is simply stated but not criticised. In the former, the untenability of the opponent's view is shown (i) on the ground of experience as well as (ii) on the textual ground, allowing the opponent the advantage of maintaining that the later recension only is authoritative, In the first place, it does not matter it says, if Bharata does not define and state the situntion etc. of it. We have to admit it because we experience it when all the desires for the worldly objects cease. In the second place there is the evidence of Bharata's text also to show that he accepted it, for, he says "Kvacicchamah",

II. OPPOSITION TO SANTA INDEPENDENTLY OF THE TEXT.

There is just one view, mentioned in the Avaloka (92) but not directly referred to by Abhinava, which denies Santa independently of Bharata's text. It says that there is no such æsthetic experience as is assumed by some under