[Sanskrit]

bhavá

1. status of being.

2. a becoming.

3. a subjective state, one of the secondary subjective becomings of Nature (states of mind, affections of desire, movements of passion, the reactions of the senses, the limited and dual play of the reason, the turns of the feeling and moral sense).

4. the affective nature.

5. general sensation.

6. [one of the sadanga]: the emotion or aesthetic feeling expressed by the form.

7. [in poetry: feeling, mood, sentiment].