CHAPTER SIX

THE SENTIMENTS

The sages question.

1-3. After hearing about the rules regarding the Preliminaries, the great sages continued their inquiries and said to Bharata, "Answer five of our questions. Explain how the Sentiments enumerated by experts in dramatic art attain their special qualities. And why are the bhāvas (States) so called, and what do they bhāvayanti (make us feel)? Besides these, what are the real meanings of terms such as, Digest (saṃgraha)$^1$ Memorial Verse (kārikā) and Etymology (nirukta)"?

Bharata answers.

4. At these words of the sages, Bharata continued speaking and mentioned in reply to their question the distinction between the Sentiments and the States.

5-7. And then he said, "O sages, I shall tell you in detail and in due order about the Digest (saṃgraha), the Memorial Verse (kārikā) and the Etymology (nirukta). I am not able by any means to exhaust all the topics about drama (nāṭya); for science (jñāna),$^1$ and arts and crafts (śilpa)$^2$ connected with it are repectively manifold and endless in number. And as it is not possible to treat exhaustively (lit. to go to the end of) even one of these subjects which are [vast] like an ocean, there cannot be any question of mastering them all.

8. [Hence] I shall tell you about the Digest on Sentiments, States and such other matters, which has its contents embodied$^1$

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1-3 (B.G. same). $^1$ For a possible chronological implication of samgraha, kārikā, nirukta, sūtra and bhāṣya mentioned in this chapter see Skt. Poetics, Vol. I. pp. 28 ff.

4 (B.G. same).

5-7 (B.G. same). $^1$ jñānāni-vyākaraṇādīni śāstrāṇi (Ag).
$^2$ śilpāni—citrapustādi-karmāṇi (Ag).

8 (B.G. same). $^1$ Read sūtragrīthārtha.