. a particular Rasa or a particular Alankara or the conception of a (metaphysical fact) or the highest ("mystical fact ); cf. the use of the word in the last sense in spiritual literature: वस्तु अमोलिक दी मेरे सतगुरु - Says Mirabai. ते वस्तु चतुरा सेविजेसु - Says Jnaneshwar. साधु वस्तु होवुनि ठेला । संशय ब्रह्मांडावोहरी गेला - Says Ramdasa. Says Mahipati, the great Kannada saint. IV Relation of Rasas to Bhavas. An enumeration of the different Bhavas and the basing of the different Rasas thereon is a great psycho-rhetorical achievement of our ancient writers. We praise them not for their precise terminologies, which unfortunately they are not, but for their discovery of the correspondence between the two great analogical systems-the Bhavas & the Rasas, The following were regarded as the chief Bhavas: रतिश्च शोकश्च क्रोधोत्साहो भयं तथा । जुगुप्सा विस्मयश्चेत्थमष्टौ प्रोक्ताः शमोपि च ॥ The nine corresponding Rasas according to ta and together are; शृंगारहास्य करुण रौद्रवीरभयानकाः । वीभत्साद्भुतसंज्ञौ चेत्यष्टौ नाट्ये रसाः स्मृताः ॥ faäzemiûmaisia maìsiq qaût ca: || True, the terminologies of the two systems, namely, Bhavas and Rasas overlap: but so do they in
