190. 212 CHAPTER IV DALAMIBE

212 CHAPTER IV DALAMIBE

and "Anubhava" for the directly perceived, in the following statement :- "Sa eva tathābhūta-vibhāvatadutthā-krandādyanubhāva carvaņayā hrdaya samvāda tanmayībhāvanā kramādāsvā- dyamanatām pratipannah." DH. L, 27. This view is further supported by the admission of Indian æstheticians that the experiences of the poet, the actor, representing the hero of the piece, and the æsthete are identical. If the experience of the poet also had been due only to a finished product of art and not to nature looked upon as art, separate mention of the poet would have been unnecessary and superfluous. In reply to the second question we may say that æsthetic experience involves universalisation. In it the individuality of the focus of the situation also disappears. The expression "'my mate" would have been indicative of the individuality of the focus of the situation being in tact. Hence it is substituted by "one of the pair of Krauñcas", which is more general than "My mate". In reply to the third question we may say that so far we have not discovered any texts, which show that these questions were directly raised and answered, and that replies to such questions are to be found in the existing text through implication, as we have stated in reply to the first question. Valmīki himself has stated the basic mental state, which was responsible for the said utterance, as follows :- "Metrical utterance proceeding from me, over-powered by grief, could not be other than this." The above narrative makes the following two points clear :- 1. The inspired poetry is an expression of a basic mental state, aroused because of identification with the focus of the situation.