Adbhutarasa, Adbhuta-rasa: 9 definitions
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In Hinduism
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Adbhutarasa (अद्भुतरस) refers to the “marvellous sentiment” used in dramatic performance (nāṭya). It is a Sanskrit compound composed of the words of adbhuta (marvellous) and rasa (‘sentiment’). This sentiment is produced from a combination of determinants, consequents and complementary psychological states.
Adbhutarasa (अद्भुतरस) or simply Adbhuta refers to the “wonderful sentiment” and represents one of the nine kinds of Rasa (“soul of Drama”), according to the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, an ancient Sanskrit text which (being encyclopedic in nature) deals with a variety of cultural topics such as arts, architecture, music, grammar and astronomy.—According to the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, Adbhuta is the sentiment that arises from wonder. Vismaya is the sthāyibhāva of adbhutarasa. Pīta i.e., yellow is the colour and Brahma is the god of this sentiment. The Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa states that adbhutarasa arises from vīrarasa. According to the Nāṭyaśāstra, this sentiment is projected through some determinates like the sight of heavenly beings, achievement of unexpected things or fulfillment of desires. Moreover, some resultants are used to adopt for conveying this sentiment to the audience. These are-expanded eyes, bristling of hair, horripilation, perspiration and movement of fingers.
Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).
Kavyashastra (science of poetry)
Adbhutarasa (अद्भुतरस) refers to the “marvellous sentiment” or the “sentiment of wonder” as defined by Cirañjīva Bhaṭṭācārya (fl. 17th century).—Cirañjīva says the basic feeling of adbhuta-rasa is wonder, and it is generated by excitants (vibhāva) like hallucination created by actors, ensuants (anubhāva) like thrill etc. and variants like stiffness etc. Though Cirañjīva has not said anything about the varieties of adbhuta-rasa, Bharata, the author of the Nāṭyaśāstra, has mentioned two kinds of adbhutadivya which is heavenly miracles and ānandaja which is produced from joy.
Example of the sentiment of wonder (adbhuta-rasa):—
ākāśe puṣparājī racayati divase tārakālīrniśāyāṃ bhūmīpṛṣṭhe vivasvattuhinakiraṇayoḥ koṭibimbaṃ tanoti/
hastanyastāravinde janayati kamalānartanaṃ vartamānaṃ sūcyagreṣu dvipānāṃ śatamapi śatadhā māyiko’yaṃ kimetat ||“Whether this person who is creating the range of flowers in the sky and a row of stars in the day who is creating the billions of reflections of the cold rays of the sun in the night, who is creating the dance of the goddess Lakṣmi in the lotus placed in hands and by whose power hundreds of elephants are kept on the point of a niddle in hundred ways is a magician”. (Kalpalatā)
Notes: In the verse composed in sragdharā metre the magician is the excitant, his mervellous activities like creating range of flowers in the sky in the day etc. are ensuants, eagerness and doubt are variants. The combination of all these goes to manifest the sentiment of mervellous.
Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, kāvyaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian tradition of poetry (kavya). Canonical literature (shastra) of the includes encyclopedic manuals dealing with prosody, rhetoric and various other guidelines serving to teach the poet how to compose literature.
Shyanika-shastra (the science of Hawking and Hunting)
Adbhutarasa (अद्भुतरस) refers to a “feeling of wonder”, according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, [while discussing the outlines of hawking]: “[...] When a Vaharī is thrown at a Stork or a Heron from a great distance, it produces a feeling of wonder (adbhutarasa) [hi janayatyadbhutaṃ rasam]. What can be more wonderful than the fall of the quarry from the sky like a mountain with clipped wings and frightened by the sound of swift motion?”.
Shyanika-shastra (श्यैनिकशास्त्र, śyainikaśāstra) deals with ancient Indian skill of hawking/falconry (one of the ways of hunting) which were laid down in a systematic manner in various Sanskrit treatises. It also explains the philosophy behind how the pleasures derived from sense-experience could lead the way to liberation.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
adbhutarasa (अद्भुतरस).—m (S) One of the nine rasa or poetical sentiments, viz. Surprise. See under rasa.
adbhutarasa (अद्भुतरस).—m One of the nine poetical Sentiments, viz. Surprise.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Adbhutarasa (अद्भुतरस):—[=adbhuta-rasa] [from adbhuta] m. the marvellous style (of poetry).
Adbhutarasa (अद्भुतरस):—[tatpurusha compound] m.
(-saḥ) (In rhetoric.) The marvellous, as a prevailing sentiment in poetical composition, one of the nine rasas or characteristic sentiments of poetical composition as described in Hindu works on rhetoric or poetry. See rasa. E. adbhuta and rasa.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Kannada-English dictionary
Adbhutarasa (ಅದ್ಭುತರಸ):—[noun] one of the sentiments that creates marvellousness, awesome reverence etc., in a poetical work or in dance; the sentiment of marvel.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Adbhuta, Rasa, Raca.
Full-text (+0): Adbhuta, Marvel, Pitha, Vismaya, Brahmadeva, Prakampita, Yellow, Adbhutadivya, Vitasta, Vitastamarga, Anandaja, Govardhana, Pumraga, Pum, Horripilation, Shantarasa.
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Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 65 < [Hindi-Malayalam-English Volume 1]
Page 63 < [Hindi-Gujarati-English Volume 1]
Page 64 < [Hindi-Marathi-English Volume 1]
Sankalpa Suryodaya of Venkatanatha (Critical Study) (by R. Laxmi)
Delineation of Adbhutarasa or Marvellous Sentiment < [Chapter 4b - Rasa delineation of the play]
Jivanandana of Anandaraya Makhin (Study) (by G. D. Jayalakshmi)
Analysis of Adbhuta-rasa < [Chapter 6 - Dramatic aspects of the Jīvanandana Nāṭaka]
Analysis of Guṇas, Vṛttis and Rīti < [Chapter 6 - Dramatic aspects of the Jīvanandana Nāṭaka]
Basic features of Nāṭaka < [Chapter 6 - Dramatic aspects of the Jīvanandana Nāṭaka]
Annadatri-carita (study) (by Sarannya V.)
1. Dramatic aspects (c): Rasa (sentiment) < [Chapter 4 - Dramatic Appraisal of Annadatri-carita]
Hastalaksanadipika a critical edition and study (by E. K. Sudha)
2. Kakusvara-vyanjana (modulation in voice) < [Chapter 7 - Vacikabhinaya according to Bharata’s Natyasastra]
4. Vacika-abhinaya in Kerala theatre < [Chapter 7 - Vacikabhinaya according to Bharata’s Natyasastra]
Chapter 8 - English Translation of the Hastalaksanadipika (Hasta-Lakshana-Deepika)
Kohala in the Sanskrit textual tradition (Study) (by Padma Sugavanam)
Kohala and Gītā (3): The concept of Svara < [Chapter 2 - Kohala as seen in citations]