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Bharata Muni · 200
The Natya Shastra (c. 200 BCE–200 CE) — Bharata's foundational Sanskrit treatise on dramaturgy, performance, music, and aesthetic theory. Origin text of the rasa theory of emotion. Pairs with POLL-RASA for the primary-source + scholarly-reader pairing.
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What this book knows
Rasa emerges from the precise combination of bodily gesture, psychological state, and sentiment — performance is a science of felt human experience.
embodiment
Sentiment is produced from a combination of Determinants, Consequents and Complementary Psychological States — as taste results from a combination of spices and vegetables.
BHAR-NS-RC-143The Erotic Sentiment arises in connexion with favourable seasons, garlands, music and poetry, represented by composure of the eyes and face, sweet smiling words and graceful movements.
BHAR-NS-RC-146Kuṭṭana — in fear, cold, attack of old age, and sickness. Chinna — in sickness, fear, cold, exercise, and angry look. So much about gestures of the chin.
BHAR-NS-RC-176religion-and-sex
When people became addicted to sensual pleasures, were under the sway of desire and greed, became affected with jealousy and anger, and found their happiness mixed with sorrow.
BHAR-NS-RC-086I have composed this Samavakāra conducive to duties, to desire as well as wealth. When performed, gods and demons were delighted to witness actions and ideas familiar to them.
BHAR-NS-RC-113work-as-meaning
Success in dramatic production — arising from Words, Sattva and Gestures — is of two kinds: divine and human, and relates to various Psychological States and Sentiments.
NSB-RC-027Illuminates
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