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28 रस-मीमांसा tion between cognition and feeling on the part of rhetoricians. They speak of also as a ज्ञान. and प्रतीति. But रस is the feeling of an emotion, pseudo emotion you may call it. Cognition and feeling can exist together, being different mental processes. An emotion is a synthesis of cognition, feeling and conation. Thus we are perfectly safo in saying that the representation of fata, अनुभाव produces a cognition of such विभाव, He attended with the feeling of particular pseudo emotion. Therefore, if our suggests anything, it suggests that a represented wat is to be experienced as ta by the hearer or spectator. Thus ta is produced by the suggestion. 71 resides in the hero or heroine, Te is experienced by the hearer or spectator. There is no o in the mind of the which may be suggested. Therefore, the proper way of describing the function of i t is that it suggests that awer is to be experienced is by the hearer. ] years the Nyaya has been mixed up with Law, Rhetoric etc. and thereby has hampered the growth of those branches of knowledge upon which it has grown up as a sort of parasite".
