367. THE RASA SCHOOL 369

THE RASA SCHOOL 369

The actor does not himself relish what the spectator is to relish. When the actor pretends to feel fear or anger, he does not feel those sentiments in reality. We saw above (p. 248) that Bhoja developed in the Śṛngāraprakāsa the theory (adumbrated in S. K. A.) that rasa is only one, that poetry is beautiful because of its pre- sence, that the one rasa may be called śrngara and is identified with अभिमान and अहङ्कार, that it pervades the soul of man owing to the impressions made on the soul in many births and that it is the one cause from which spring many good characteristics of the soul (रसोभिमानोहद्कार: शद्गार इति गीयते। योर्थस्तस्यान्वयात् काव्यं कमनीयत्वमश्नुते॥ विशिष्टादृष्टजन्मायं जन्मिनामन्तरात्मस। आत्मसम्यग्गुणोद्भूतेरेको हेतु: प्रकाशते॥ सर. क. V. 1-2). What Bhoja means by &TFTT being identificd with WEER is practically the same as holding that rasa realization is भानन्दमय and त्रह्मास्वाद- HeaT. When Bhoja says that srngara is the only rasa he gives a different and philosophic significance to that word from what it ordinarily has viz. the love of man and woman. He keeps the two meanings apart. Those who want to under- stand Bhoja's point of view should read pp. 435-513 of Dr. Raghavan's work on the Śrngāraprakāśa (vol. I part 2). Vide 'Number of rasas' by Dr. Raghavan pp. 92-106 (=Abhi- navabhāratī vol. I. pp. 333-342) for a corrected text of A. B. on शान्तरस. There were some writers who held that adbhuta (wonder- ful) was the only rasa. The साहित्यदर्पण (III. 2-3) states that his great-great-grand-father Nārāyana held that camatkāra or vismaya was the essence of rasa and quotes what yfru says in his work (vide p. 289 n. 3). Dr. De in his paper (on 'the theory of Rasa' contributed to the Sir Asutosh Mookerjee Silver Jubilee vol. III (pp. 240-253) gave the text of Abhinavagupta's commentary on the rasasutra in chap. VI of the RIT (corresponding to vol. I pp. 274-288). It is in these pages that the views of लोल्लट, राङकुक, नायक and अभिनवगुप्त are set out at length. It is impossible in the space that I can afford to expound in detail

भष्टावेव ... नटः are quoted by जगन्नाथ (रसग. p. 30), who accepts शान्त as 9th रस. The भ. भा. (vol. I. p. 292) says 'नटे तहि किमास्वाद- नोपायः। अत एव पात्रमित्युच्यते। नहि पात्रे मधास्वादोपि तदुपायकः ।'