The Odious Sentiment

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Text from Dhananjaya's 10th century aesthetic treatise the दशारूप, or Dasarupa.

80 (P. 73; H. 67).

बिभात्सः क्र्मिपुतिगंधिवामाठुप्रयैर जुगुप्सैकभुर
उद्वेगी रुधिरान्त्रकिकासवासमाम्सदिभिः क्सोभानाह
वैराग्यज जघनास्तानादिषू घृणाशुद्धो 'नुभावैर वृतो
नासाव्क्त्रविकूणनादिभिर इहावेगार्तिशण्कादयः

'The Odious Sentiment (bibhatsa) has [the Permanent State] Disgust (jugupsa) as its sole basis; it causes distress (udvegin) chiefly by means of worms, stinking matter, and nausea; it causes horror by means of blood, entrails, bones, marrow, flesh, and the like; it causes unmixed aversion in the case of the hips, breasts, and so forth [of women] because of renunciation. It is accompanied by contraction of the nose, mouth, and so on as Consequents. In it [there occur] Agitation, Sickness, Apprehension, and the like [as Transitory States].'

Com. Ex.: Malatlm. 5. 16, p. 131 = Sarng. 4075 [quoted also at Kavya- pradipa 4, p. 97] (distress) ; Mahavlra. i. 35, p. 25 (horror) ; /a/am vaktra° [unidentified stanza] (aversion).

Notes, ghrnasuddho H, V, P; ghrnayukto Hall p. 39. — For metrical reasons the word arti is used instead of the technical term vyadhi (see 4- 38) . — Meter: sardulavikridita.

|[ Bh. 6, prose and v. 74, 75; SD. 236; Rudr. Srrig. 3. 25, 27, 49; Rudr. Kavyal. 15. 5, 6; AP. 34i. 16, 17a; Hem. Kavyan. 2, p. 79; Vagbhatal. 5. 31; Vagbh. Kavyan. 5, p. 66-57; Rasatar. 7, p. 60; 5, p. 55; Candraloka 6. i1; Pratapar. 4. 53, p. 261; Alamkarasekhara 20. 24; Rasaratn. 98; Sahityasara 4. 125 a. Cf. Regnaud, p. 311-312.