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rasa

[Sanskrit]


rása

1. sap, juice; essence. 2. taste; pleasure; liking (and disliking); affectation of sense. 3. aesthesis; the response of the mind, the vital feeling and the sense to a certain "taste" in things which may often be but is not always a spiritual feeling. 4. the eight rasas: eight forms of emotional aestheticism.

rása