The document discusses the theory of Rasa from Bharatmuni's Natyasastra. It outlines the four basic sentiments or sources of Rasa - erotic, furious, heroic, and odious. From these originate other sentiments like the pathetic, marvelous, and terrible. It then describes the colors associated with each sentiment and their presiding deities according to the Natyasastra.

1. Theory of Rasa
- Bharatmuni
Name: Jitendra Sumra
Roll No.-
Sem.: II
Sub.- Literary Criticism

2. Introduction:-
• The Rasa theory originates with
Bharat in Natyasastra. Its
meaning that is sought
compositions in the nature of an
emotional effect of diverse human
experience on man’s mind and
heart.

3. • Rasa means to analyse the structure
of those emotions in terms of cause,
physical correlate (effect) and their
effect on man’s being.
• Now we will expound the origin,
colours, and illustration of these
rhetorical sentiments.

4. • The sources of origin of these sentiments
are the four basic sentiments of Rasa.
These are as follows:
» The Erotic
» The furious
» The heroic
» The odious

5. • The sentiment becomes possible from the
erotic, and the pathetic from the furious;
the origin of the marvelous of the terrible
from the odious.
• A mimicry or imitation of the erotic is
fittingly described as the sentiment
consequence of the furious is to be
known as the pathetic sentiment.

6. • In the same way the consequence of
the Heroic is properly described as
the marvelous. And the presentation
of the odious is to be known likewise
as the terrible.

7. The new colours:-
• The erotic sentiment is light-green
(syana); the comic is descrived as white
(Sita); pathetic is grey (kapota) and the
fearfull is described as red (rakta). The
heroic is to be known as yellow-red
(gaula), the terrible as black; the odious
on the contrary is blue (rala) and the
marvellous is yellow.

8. Now the deities:-
• The Erotic (sentiment) has Vishnu as its
presiding deity; the deity of the comic is
Pramtha; the deity of the furious is Rudra;
the pathetic has Yama as its deity.
• The deity of the odious is Mahakala; the
terrible has Kala as the god; the heroic,
the god Mahendra the marvelous has
Brahma as its deity.