• In Indian aesthetics, a rasa (Sanskrit: रस) literally means "juice, essence or taste". It is a concept in Indian arts denoting the aesthetic flavour of...
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  • Rasa (Sanskrit: रास, IAST: rāsa) refers to the creation and reception of a distinct 'flavor' or quality of something. As a Sanskrit theological concept...
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  • Indian aesthetics (redirect from NavaRasa)
    Pandanallur style expressions are more limited in scope. Rasa theory blossoms beginning with the Sanskrit text Nātyashāstra (nātya meaning "drama" and shāstra...
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  • emotion of emotionlessness) is considered as a ninth rasa, a concept of aesthetic flavour in Sanskrit literature. According to translation of Abhinavabhārati...
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  • Rasa (rásā रसा) is the name of a western tributary of the Indus in the Rigveda (verse 5.53.9). The word rasa means "moisture, humidity" in Vedic Sanskrit...
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    Raslila (redirect from Rasa leela)
    The Raslila (Sanskrit: रासलीला, romanized: Rāsalīlā), also rendered the Rasalila or the Ras dance, is part of a traditional story described in Hindu texts...
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    Natya Shastra (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    (in English and Sanskrit). Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. OCLC 11717230. Wallace Dace (1963). "The Concept of "Rasa" in Sanskrit Dramatic Theory"...
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    Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit. This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan...
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  • should be understood within the broader frame of Indian aesthetics as rasa (Sanskrit: रस), i.e. an emotion or feeling in the reader or audience that cannot...
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    Sringara (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    Sringara (Sanskrit: शृङ्गार, śṛṅgāra) is one of the nine rasas, usually translated as erotic love, romantic love, or as attraction or beauty. Rasa means "flavour"...
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    Rambhadracharya (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    in the Śṛngāra Rasa, Śrīsītārāmakelikaumudī is a work which has Vātsalya Rasa as the primary emotion, which is augmented by Śṛngāra Rasa. Dinkar notes...
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  • Rasasvada (category Sanskrit words and phrases)
    defining literature. Rasa, originally propounded by Bharata and which is multifaceted, is the most important concept in Sanskrit criticism and has influenced...
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  • Ṛtusaṃhāra (category Sanskrit poetry)
    ऋतुसंहार; ऋतु ṛtu, "season"; संहार saṃhāra, "compilation") is a medium length Sanskrit poem. While the poem is often attributed to Kalidasa, modern scholars disagree...
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  • Rasashastra (redirect from Rasa Shastra)
    references to rasaśāstra. Where these texts use the word rasa, later commentators interpret rasa as mercury, despite the word having various other meanings...
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  • Hāsya (category Sanskrit words and phrases)
    Hāsya (Sanskrit: हास्य) is a Sanskrit word for one of the nine rasas or bhava (mood) of Indian aesthetics, usually translated as humour or comedy. The...
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    presented in a painting. Rasa is a Sanskrit word that denotes the quality of emotional fulfilment that a work of art brings about. Rasa Theory is a theory of...
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  • Sthayibhava (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    transforms into Rasa. The concept of Sthayibhavas to produce Rasa was originally applied to drama but later on, it was used in most Sanskrit literature. Though...
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  • Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. This...
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  • Bharata (sage) (category Sanskrit writers)
    Mehta, T. (1995). Sanskrit Play Production in Ancient India. Motilal Banarsidass. Dace, W. (1963). "The Concept of "Rasa" in Sanskrit Dramatic Theory"...
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  • support the basic structure (and functioning) of the body. They consist of: Rasa dhatu (lymph) the substratum formed just after the digestion of food. The...
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    Radha (category CS1 Sanskrit-language sources (sa))
    introduced three forms of rasa dance—Maha rasa, Kunj rasa and Basant rasa. Later two more forms of rasa—Nitya rasa and Deba rasa was added by successive...
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    The word "aamras" is derived from the Sanskrit words āmra (Sanskrit: आम्र; lit. 'mango') and rasa (Sanskrit: रस; lit. 'juice'), so the literal meaning...
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  • Dasharupakam (category 10th-century Sanskrit literature)
    discusses, the subjects of Vastu(Plot), Netaa(the protagonist), and the Rasa (the emotive aspect) - which are essential to a play. The Dasharupakam comprises...
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  • dance Natyashastra Navarasa Nātyakalpadrumam Rasa (aesthetics) Sanskrit drama Tarla Mehta (1995). Sanskrit Play Production. Motilal Banarsidass.pp. 131–186...
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    Mani Madhava Chakyar (category Indian Sanskrit scholars)
    importance to both Rasa-abhinaya and Vachika-abhinaya.[citation needed] Chakyar was a Sanskrit scholar and gave lectures in Sanskrit. He studied Alankarashastra...
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    Sheldon Pollock (category American Sanskrit scholars)
    in Sanskrit before colonialism. He is also editing a series of Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought, to which he has contributed A Rasa Reader:...
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    Kumarabhargaviyacampu Rasamānjari (Bouquet of Rasa) Rasatarangini (Rivers of Rasa) Pollock, Sheldon (2009). "Bouquet of Rasa" & "River of Rasa". NYU Press. pp. xx–xxi. ISBN 9780814767559...
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    Shringara-Prakasha (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    voluminous set of Sanskrit poetry consisting of thirty-six chapters, documented in 1908. It deals mostly with Alamkara-Shastra (rhetoric) and rasa, and is claimed...
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    Sangita Ratnakara (category 13th-century Sanskrit literature)
    musicological texts from India. Composed by Śārṅgadeva (शार्ङ्गदेव) in Sanskrit during the 13th century, both Carnatic music and Hindustani music traditions...
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  • The Clay Sanskrit Library is a series of books published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation. Each work features the text in its original...
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