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This a unknown fragment of Kāvyaśāstra, it describes aesthetic emotion/essence which is called rasa. In the sanskrit ancient Kāvyaśāstra primary text being Bharata Muni's Nāṭyaśāstra defines eight primary rasas (love, humor, pathos, fury, heroism, terror, disgust, and wonder). the manuscript here describes Santa , vira, raudra rasa and mentions modern Kāvyaśāstra scholars lke Anandavardhana and Abhinava gupta at folio no. 129 also mentioned a quote from Bhavabhuti' s Uttararamacarita. It is written in Sanskrit language and devanagari script, it has not mentioned any colophone and folios are only 128 and 129 so it seems that it is an incomplete text.
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