{{short description|Aesthetic concept in Indian arts related to emotions and feelings}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Indian classical music}} {{Hinduism}}
In Indian aesthetics, a '''rasa''' ({{langx|sa|रस}}) literally means "juice, essence or taste."<ref name=mmwrasa>Monier Monier-Williams (1899), [http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/mw/0900/mw__0902.html Rasa], Sanskrit English Dictionary with Etymology, Motilal Banarsidass (Originally Published: Oxford)</ref><ref name=britrasa/> It is a concept in Indian arts denoting the aesthetic flavour of any visual, literary or musical work that evokes an indescribable feeling in the reader or audience.<ref name=britrasa>[https://www.britannica.com/art/rasa Rasa: Indian Aesthetic Theory], Encyclopedia Britannica (2013)</ref> It refers to the emotional flavors/essence crafted into the work by the writer or a performer and relished by a 'sensitive spectator' or ''sahṛdaya,'' literally one who "has heart," and can connect to the work with emotion, without dryness.
Rasas are created by one's bhava (one's state of mind).<ref>Farley Richmond. "India" in ''The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre''. ed. James R. Brandon (Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 69.</ref>
The ''rasa'' theory has a dedicated section (Chapter 6) in the Sanskrit text ''Natya Shastra'', an ancient text on the arts from the 1st millennium BCE, attributed to Bharata Muni.<ref name=lidovarasa>{{harvnb|Natalia Lidova|2014}}</ref> However, its most complete exposition in drama, songs and other performance arts is found in the works of the Kashmiri Shaivite philosopher Abhinavagupta (c. 1000 CE), demonstrating the persistence of a long-standing aesthetic tradition of ancient India.<ref name=britrasa/><ref name="Schwartz2004p12"/><ref name=meyer102>{{cite book|author=Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe |title=Approaches to Acting: Past and Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-KiJn_o4R5MC |year=2005|publisher= Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-4411-0381-9|pages=73, 102–106, 120}}</ref> According to the ''Rasa'' theory of the ''Natya Shastra'', entertainment is a desired effect of performance arts but not the primary goal. Instead, the primary goal is to transport the audience into another, parallel reality full of wonder and bliss, where they experience the essence of their consciousness and reflect on spiritual and moral questions.<ref name="Schwartz2004p12">{{cite book|author=Susan L. Schwartz |title=Rasa: Performing the Divine in India |url=https://archive.org/details/rasa00susa |url-access=registration |year=2004|publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-13144-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/rasa00susa/page/12 12]–17}}</ref><ref name=meyer102/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Ketu H. Katrak|author2=Anita Ratnam|title=Voyages of Body and Soul: Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VMYxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA45|year=2014|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-6115-1|page=45}}</ref>
Although the concept of rasa is fundamental to many forms of Indian arts, including dance, music, theatre, painting, sculpture, and literature, the interpretation and implementation of a particular rasa differ between different styles and schools.{{Sfn|Wallace Dace|1963|pp=249-252}}{{Sfn|Rowell|2015|pp=327-333}}<ref name="Tymieniecka2012p295"/> The Indian ''rasa'' theory is also found in the Hindu arts and Ramayana musical productions of Bali and Java (Indonesia), but with regional creative evolution.<ref name="Benamou2010p172">{{cite book|author=Marc Benamou|title=RASA: Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3xrXitSIcS0C&pg=PA172| year=2010| publisher=Oxford University Press| isbn=978-0-19-971995-2| pages=122, 172–194}}</ref>
==Role in art== According to the ''Natya Shastra'', a ''rasa'' is a synthetic phenomenon and the goal of any creative performance art, oratory, painting or literature.<ref name="Benamou2010p172"/><ref name= Lavezzoli23>{{cite book|author=Peter Lavezzoli|title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSZKCXtx-wEC&pg=PA23|year=2006|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-0-8264-1815-9|page=23}}</ref> Wallace Dace translates the ancient text's explanation of ''rasa'' as "a relish that of an elemental human emotion like love, pity, fear, heroism or mystery, which forms the dominant note of a dramatic piece; this dominant emotion, as tasted by the audience, has a different quality from that which is aroused in real life; rasa may be said to be the original emotion transfigured by aesthetic delight."{{Sfn|Wallace Dace|1963|pp=249-250}}
Rasas are created through various means, and the ancient Indian texts discuss many such means. For example, one way is through the actors' gestures and facial expressions.<ref>Farley Richmond, "India", in ''The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre'', ed. James R. Brandon (Cambridge University Press, 1993), p.69.</ref> Expressing ''Rasa'' in classical Indian dance form is referred to as '''Rasa-abhinaya'''. Some modern commentators have emphasized the psychophysical dimension of ''rasa''. For example, the French philosopher Martine Chifflot argues that classical Indian conceptions of theatrical and musical art presuppose that ''rasa'' and ''raga'' can "have a very real influence on psychophysical and even spiritual states", an efficacy that she considers largely diminished in contemporary Western theatre.<ref>Martine Chifflot, "De l'interprétation théâtrale", ''L'Enseignement philosophique'', 2019/2, vol. 69, p. 43. doi:10.3917/eph.692.0025.</ref> This interpretation has been compared to the ideas of Antonin Artaud, who, drawing in part on Balinese theatre, called for a form of performance capable of exerting a similarly transformative effect on the spectator's organism.<ref>Cobina Gillitt, "A Legacy of Theatricality: Antonin Artaud’s Encounter with Balinese Gamelan", National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref>
The theory of rasas forms the aesthetic underpinning of all Indian classical dance and theatre, such as Bharatanatyam, Kathakali, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Manipuri, Kudiyattam, and others.{{Sfn|Wallace Dace|1963|pp=249-252}}
In Indian classical music, each ''raga'' is an inspired creation for a specific mood, where the musician or ensemble creates the ''rasa'' in the listener.<ref name= Lavezzoli23/> However, predominantly all ''ragas'' and musical performances in Hindu traditions aim at one of six ''rasas'', wherein music is a form of creating "love, compassion, peace, heroism, comic or the feeling of wonder" within the listener.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} Anger, disgust, fear and such emotions are not the subject of ''rasa'', but they are part of Indian theories on dramatic arts. Of the six ''rasa'' that are aimed at in Indian music, each has sub-categories. For example, love ''rasa'' in Hindu literature has many musical flavors, such as erotic love (''sringar'') and spiritual devotional love (''bhakti'').<ref name= Lavezzoli23/>{{Sfn|Emmie Te Nijenhuis|1974|pp=34-42}}
{{Quote box |quote = <poem> ''Rasa'' is a fusion of word and meaning, that bathes the minds of readers, with savor of bliss. It is the truth of poetry, shining without cessation. Clear to the heart, it is yet beyond the words. </poem> |source = —''Hrsikesa''<ref name="Tymieniecka2012p295"/> |bgcolor=#FFE0BB |align = right }} In the theories of Indian poetics, ancient scholars state that a literary composition's effectiveness depends on what is stated and how it is stated (words, grammar, rhythm), which creates its ''rasa''.<ref name="Tymieniecka2012p295"/> Among the most celebrated of these theories of poetics and literary works are the 5th-century Bhartrhari and the 9th-century Anandavardhana. However, the theoretical tradition of integrating ''rasa'' into literary works likely returns to a more ancient period. This is generally discussed under the Indian concepts of ''Dhvani'', ''Sabdatattva'' and ''Sphota''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sebastian Alackapally|title=Being and Meaning: Reality and Language in Bhartṛhari and Heidegger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liCLrmfnKSoC&pg=PA86 |year=2002|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-1803-3|pages=78–97}}</ref><ref name="Tymieniecka2012p295">{{cite book|author= W.S. Hanley|editor= Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka|title=Analecta Husserliana, Ingardeniana III: The Performing Arts, the Fine Arts, and Literature|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EovtCAAAQBAJ |year=2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-94-011-3762-1|pages=299–300, 295–309}}</ref><ref name="Coward1980">{{cite book|author=Harold G. Coward|title=The Sphota Theory of Language: A Philosophical Analysis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEUNRgQ1VOYC&pg=PA17 |year=1980|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0181-3|pages=17–23}}</ref>
For example, the literary work ''Bhagavata Purana'' deploys ''rasa'', presenting the bhakti of Krishna in aesthetic terms. The rasa it presents is an emotional relish, a mood called Sthayi Bhava. This development towards a relishable state is created through emotional conditions which are called ''Vibhavas'', ''Anubhavas'' and ''Sanchari Bhavas''. Vibhavas means Karana or cause: it is of two kinds - ''Alambana'', the personal or human object and substratum, and ''Uddipana'', the excitants. Anubhava, as the name signifies, means the ensuants or effects of emotion. ''Sanchari Bhavas'' are those passing feelings which are ancillary to a mood. Later scholars added more emotional states, such as the ''Sattvika Bhavas''.<ref name=ty>C.Ramanujachari and Dr. V. Raghavan. ''The Spiritual Heritage of Tyagaraja''.</ref>
In the Indian theories on sculpture and architecture (''Shilpa Shastras''), the ''rasa'' theories, in part, drive the forms, shapes, arrangements and expressions of images and structures.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alice Boner|author2=Sadāśiva Rath Śarmā|author3=Bettina Bäumer|title=The essence of form in sacred art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2eKhTXstG4C&pg=PA72 |year=1996|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0090-8|pages=72–78, 45–46, 57–58, 115–116, 121–122}}</ref> Some Indian texts on sculpture suggest nine ''rasas''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alice Boner|author2=Sadāśiva Rath Śarmā|author3=Bettina Bäumer|title=The essence of form in sacred art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2eKhTXstG4C&pg=PA72 |year=1996|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0090-8|pages=73–74}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Ariel Glucklich|title=The Sense of Adharma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JB3oCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30 |year=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-508341-5|pages=30–31}}</ref>
=== Poetry === According to rasa theory, the immediate value of poetry for the reader is an enjoyable experience.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roy W. Perrett |url=http://archive.org/details/indian-philosophy-a-collection-of-readings-5-vol.-set-roy-w.-perrett |title=Indian Philosophy: A Collection of Readings (5 Vol. Set) |date=2013 |pages=2222}}</ref>
== Sahṛdayatā == Abhinavagupta defines ''sahṛdaya'' in ''Locana'', his commentary on ''Dhvanyāloka. Sahṛdaya''-s are those spectators who:
# "have been exposed to appreciation of literary work and who have made it a habit to think about the literary work"<ref name=":0" /> # "because of this previous exposure, they attuned their minds to create the reflection of poetic emotions in their minds"<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Hardikar |first=A. R. |date=1994 |title=The Aesthetic Appreciator or Sahṛdaya |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41694424 |journal=Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute |volume=75 |issue=1/4 |pages=265–272 |issn=0378-1143}}</ref>
In his philosophical work, Abhinavagupta believed that ''sahṛdayatā'' (aesthetic sensitivity), is crucial within the context of music and bhakti. Abhinavgupta suggests that fullness of delight is essential for developing aesthetic sensitivity. This delight is not limited to pleasant experiences but also includes painful ones, as both can lead to an expansion of consciousness. He emphasizes that the capacity for enjoyment is closely linked to receptivity to the ultimate experience and labels those unable to appreciate good music as "ahrdaya" (heartless, insensitive). Aesthetic sensitivity is viewed as a necessary condition for spiritual sensibility, both expressed by the term ''sahṛdayatā''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bäumer |first=Bettina |date=2008-01-01 |title=The Lord of the Heart: Abhinavagupta's Aesthetics and Kashmir Śaivism |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/rart/12/1-3/article-p214_15.xml |journal=Religion and the Arts |language=en |volume=12 |issue=1-3 |pages=214–229 |doi=10.1163/156852908X271033 |issn=1079-9265|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==History== The word ''rasa'' appears in ancient Vedic literature. In ''Rigveda'', it connotes a liquid, an extract and flavor.<ref name="Meyer2005p102"/>{{Refn|group=note|See Rigvedic hymns 1.187.4–5 composed by Agastya, for example. The entire hymn praises liquid extracts of foods as the spirits of great gods, the source of great strength within humans, as Agastya glorifies foods. Sanskrit: तव त्ये पितो '''रसा''' रजांस्यनु विष्ठिताः । दिवि वाता इव श्रिताः ॥४॥ तव त्ये पितो ददतस्तव स्वादिष्ठ ते पितो । प्र स्वाद्मानो '''रसानां''' तुविग्रीवा इवेरते ॥५॥<ref>{{cite book|author=Laurie L. Patton|title=Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSZmbbsg9bEC|year=2005|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-93088-9|pages=100–101}}; For original text: [https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/ऋग्वेद:_सूक्तं_१.१८७ Rigveda 1.187], Wikisource (in Sanskrit)</ref>}} In ''Atharvaveda'', ''rasa'' in many contexts means "taste", and also the sense of "the sap of grain". According to Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, ''rasa'' in the Upanishads refers to the "essence, self-luminous consciousness, quintessence" and "taste" in some contexts.<ref name="Meyer2005p102">{{cite book|author=Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe|title=Approaches to Acting: Past and Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-KiJn_o4R5MC&pg=PA102 |year=2005|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1-4411-0381-9|pages=102–103}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Many Upanishads use the word ''rasa''. For example, the "Ananda Valli" section of the ''Taittiriya Upanishad'' states, "rasa is essence par excellence, the universal essence/bliss". ('''रसो''' वै सः । '''रसँ''' ह्येवायं लब्ध्वाऽऽनन्दी भवति ।)<ref>{{cite book|author=Dinkgrafe Daniel Meyer|title=Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICcrBwAAQBAJ |year=2011|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-3491-9|page=243}}; For Sanskrit original, see: [https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/तैत्तिरीयोपनिषदत्/ब्रह्मानन्दवल्ली तैत्तिरीयोपनिषद ब्रह्मानन्दवल्ली], Wikisource</ref>}}{{Refn|group=note|The philosophical or mystical meaning of ''rasa'' is common in the ''bhasya'' or commentaries on the Principal Upanishads of Hinduism. For example, Adi Shankara comments that ''rasa'' means "bliss as is innate in oneself and manifests itself even in the absence of external stimuli" because bliss is a non-material state that is spiritual, subjective and an intrinsic state of a human being. Happiness, to Shankara, does not depend on others or external, material things; it is a state one discovers and reaches within oneself through ''atma-jnana'' (self-knowledge).<ref name="Meyer2005p102"/>}} In post-Vedic literature, the word generally connotes "extract, essence, juice or tasty liquid."<ref name=mmwrasa/><ref name="Meyer2005p102"/>
In an aesthetic sense, Rasa is suggested in the Vedic literature, but the oldest surviving manuscripts describing the ''rasa'' theory of Hinduism are of the ''Natya Shastra''. The Aitareya Brahmana in chapter 6, for example, states:
{{Blockquote| <poem> Now (he) glorifies the arts, the arts are refinement of the self (''atma-samskrti''). With these the worshipper recreates his self, that is made of rhythms, meters. </poem> |''Aitareya Brahmana 6.27'' (~1000 BCE)|Translator: Arindam Chakrabarti<ref name="Chakrabarti2016p1">{{cite book|author=Arindam Chakrabarti|title=The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXFYCwAAQBAJ |year=2016|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1-4725-2430-0|pages=1–2}}</ref>}}
The ''Natya shastra'' presents the ''rasa'' theory in Chapter 6.<ref name=lidovarasa/> The text begins its discussion with a sutra called the ''rasa sutra'':<ref>{{cite book|author=Narendra Nath Sarma|title=Paṇḍitarāja Jagannātha, the Renowned Sanskrit Poet of Medieval India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vc_eBshVJf8C&pg=PA75 |year=1994|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-393-3|page=75}}</ref>
{{Blockquote| ''Rasa'' is produced from a combination of Determinants (''vibhava''), Consequents (''anubhava'') and Transitory States (''vyabhicaribhava''). |''Natyashastra 6.109'' (~200 BCE–200 CE)|Translator: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe<ref name="Meyer2005p102"/>}}
According to the ''Natya shastra'', the goals of theatre are to empower aesthetic experience and deliver emotional ''rasa''. The text states that the aims of art are manifold. In many cases, it aims to produce repose and relief for those exhausted with labor, distraught with grief, laden with misery, or struck by austere times.<ref name="Chakrabarti2016p1"/> However, entertainment is an effect, yet not the primary goal of arts, according to the ''Natya shastra''. The primary goal is to create ''rasa'' to lift and transport the spectators towards the expression of ultimate reality and transcendent values.<ref name="Schwartz2004p12"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe |title=Approaches to Acting: Past and Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-KiJn_o4R5MC |year=2005|publisher= Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-4411-0381-9|pages=102–104, 155–156}}</ref>
The ''Abhinavabhāratī'' is the most studied commentary on ''Natyasastra'', written by Abhinavagupta (950–1020 CE), who also referred to ''Natyasastra'' as the ''Natyaveda''.<ref>{{cite book |last = Ghosh |first = Manomohan |title = Natyasastra |year = 2002 |isbn =81-7080-076-5 |page =2 note 3|url= https://archive.org/stream/NatyaShastra/natya_shastra_translation_volume_1_-_bharat_muni#page/n87/mode/2up }}</ref>{{Sfn|Ananda Lal|2004|p=308, 492}} Abhinavagupta's analysis of ''Natyasastra'' is notable for its extensive discussion of aesthetic and ontological questions.{{Sfn|Ananda Lal|2004|p=308, 492}} According to Abhinavagupta, the success of an artistic performance is measured not by the reviews, awards or recognition the production receives, but only when it is performed with skilled precision, devoted faith and pure concentration, so that the artist gets the audience emotionally absorbed into the art and immerses the spectator with the pure joy of a ''rasa'' experience.{{Sfn|Tarla Mehta|1995|p=24}}
==Elements== [[File:Sringara3sm.jpg |thumb|Expression of ''Sringāra'' (Romance) in Bharatanatyam |alt=Sringara or Romance in Bharatanatyam]] [[File:Durga-mudra.png|right|thumb|Raudram rasa of the destructive fury of goddess Durga in Bharatanatyam]] Bharata Muni enunciated the eight rasas in the ''Nātyasāstra'', an ancient Sanskrit text of dramatic theory and other performance arts, written between 200 BC and 200 AD.<ref name=lidovarasa/> In the Indian performing arts, a ''rasa'' is a sentiment or emotion evoked in each audience member by the art. The ''Natya Shastra'' mentions six rasa in one section, but in the dedicated section on ''rasa,'' it states and discusses eight primary ''rasa''.<ref name="Meyer2005p102"/>{{Sfn|Wallace Dace|1963|pp=249-250}} According to Nātyasāstra, each rasa has a presiding deity and a specific colour. There are 4 pairs of rasas. For instance, Hāsya arises out of Sringara. The Aura of a frightened person is black, and the aura of an angry person is red. Bharata Muni established the following:<ref>{{cite book |last= Ghosh |first= Manomohan |title= Natyasastra |year= 2002 |isbn=81-7080-076-5}}</ref>
*'''{{IAST|Śṛṅgāraḥ}}''' (शृङ्गारः): Romance, Love, attractiveness. Presiding deity: Vishnu. Colour: Śyāma (Dark-brown-black) *'''{{IAST|Hāsyam}}''' (हास्यं): Laughter, mirth, comedy. Presiding deity: Shiva. Colour: white *'''{{IAST|Raudram}}''' (रौद्रं): Fury. Presiding deity: Rudra. Colour: red *'''{{IAST|Kāruṇyam}}''' (कारुण्यं): Compassion, mercy. Presiding deity: Yama. Colour: grey *'''{{IAST|Bībhatsam}}''' (बीभत्सं): Disgust, aversion. Presiding deity: Mahakala. Colour: blue *'''{{IAST|Bhayānakam}}''' (भयानकं): Horror, terror. Presiding deity: Kāla. Colour: black *'''{{IAST|Vīram}}''' (वीरं): Heroism. Presiding deity: Indra. Colour: Bright White *'''{{IAST|Adbhutam}}''' (अद्भुतं): Wonder, amazement. Presiding deity: Brahma. Colour: yellow<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.thenavarasa.com/flash/ |title=The Navarasa |access-date=2012-04-22 }}</ref>
===Śāntam rasa=== Later authors added a ninth rasa. This addition had to undergo much struggle between the sixth and tenth centuries before it could be accepted, and the expression "''Navarasa''" (the nine rasas) could become established.
*'''{{IAST|Śāntam}}''': Peace or tranquility.<ref name="Pollock2016">{{cite book|last= Pollock|first=Sheldon|title=A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ub51CwAAQBAJ|date=26 April 2016|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-54069-8|page=48}}</ref> deity: Vishnu. Colour: perpetual white.
Shānta-rasa functions as an equal member of the set of rasas, but it is simultaneously distinct as being the most clear form of aesthetic bliss. Abhinavagupta likens it to the string of a jeweled necklace; while it may not be the most appealing for most people, it is the string that gives form to the necklace, allowing the jewels of the other eight rasas to be relished. Relishing the rasas and particularly shānta-rasa is implied to be almost as good as, but never relatively equal to, the bliss of self-realization experienced by yogis.
== List of bhavas == According to the ''Natyashastra'', bhavas are of three types: ''sthayi'' (stable), ''sanchari'' (travelling) and ''sattvika'' (pure) {{clarify|date=May 2023}}. These classifications are based on how the rasas are developed or enacted during the aesthetic experience. This is seen in the following passage: <blockquote> पुनश्च भावान्वक्ष्यामि स्थायिसञ्चारिसत्त्वजान्॥६.१६॥ (''{{Translation|Again I shall declare the beings born of the permanent and moving beings.}}'')
</blockquote>
===Sthayi === The ''Natyasastra'' lists eight ''Sthayibhavas'' with eight corresponding ''rasas'': *''Rati'' (Love) *''Hasya'' (Mirth) *''Soka'' (Sorrow) *''Krodha'' (Anger) *''Utsaha'' (Energy) *''Bhaya'' (Terror) *''Jugupsa'' (Disgust) *''Vismaya'' (Astonishment)
=== Sattvika === The ''Natyasastra'' outlines eight ''anubhavas'' or ''sattvika bhavas'':<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1188-1 |title=Hinduism and Tribal Religions |date=2022 |publisher=Springer Netherlands |isbn=978-94-024-1187-4 |editor-last=Long |editor-first=Jeffery D. |series=Encyclopedia of Indian Religions |location=Dordrecht |pages=85–86 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-94-024-1188-1 |editor-last2=Sherma |editor-first2=Rita D. |editor-last3=Jain |editor-first3=Pankaj |editor-last4=Khanna |editor-first4=Madhu}}</ref>
* ''Stambha'' (Stupefaction) * ''Sveda'' (Sweating) * ''Romancha'' (Feeling thrilled) * ''Svarabheda'' (Break in voice) * ''Vepathu'' (Trembling) * ''Vaivaranya'' (Pallor) * ''Ashru'' (Tears) * ''Pralaya'' (Swoon or death)
==Influence on cinema== ''Rasa'' has been an important influence on the cinema of India. Satyajit Ray has applied the ''Rasa'' method of classical Sanskrit drama to movies, for instance, in ''The Apu Trilogy'' (1955–1959).<ref name="Cooper 2000 1-4">{{citation|last=Cooper|first=Darius|title=The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2000|isbn=0-521-62980-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cinemaofsatyajit00coop/page/1 1–4]|url=https://archive.org/details/cinemaofsatyajit00coop/page/1}}</ref>
In Hindi cinema, it is the theme of the film Naya Din Nayi Raat, where Sanjeev Kumar plays nine characters corresponding to the nine ''Rasas''.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
==See also== {{Contains special characters|Indic}} * Abhinaya * Natya Shastra * Rasa lila * Telugu literature * Sanskrit Literature * Sanskrit Theatre
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