Demystifying Kashmiri Rasa ideology: Rāmacandra–Guṇacandra’s theory of aesthetics in their Nāṭyadarpaṇa

This paper presents a study of Rāmacandra–Guṇacandra’s theory of aesthetics in light of the Kashmiri rasa ideology and demonstrates that the Jain authors offer a new and original conceptualization of aesthetic experience, in which the spectator remains cognitively active in the course of watching th...