Shringara is the rasa of romantic love, eroticism, and beauty. It is usually associated with the color blue and the god Vishnu.
Shringara Quotes in Indian Ink
The Indian Ink quotes below are all either spoken by Shringara or refer to Shringara. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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DAS (Unhesitatingly) The rasa of erotic love is called Shringara. Its god is Vishnu, and its colour is shyama, which is blue-black. Vishvanata in his book on poetics tells us: Shringara requires, naturally, a lover and his loved one, who may be a courtesan if she is sincerely enamoured, and it is aroused by, for example, the moon, the scent of sandalwood, or being in an empty house. Shringara goes harmoniously with all other rasa and their complementary emotions, with the exception of fear, cruelty, disgust and sloth.
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Shringara Term Timeline in Indian Ink
The timeline below shows where the term Shringara appears in Indian Ink. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...When Flora says that her poem is about sex, Das explains that her rasa is Shringara, erotic love, which is blue-black. Flora compares Das to Dr. Aziz from E.M. Forster’s novel...
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...Flora. She finds it stunningly beautiful and tells Das that it has the love rasa. (Shringara, he clarifies.) Under the moonlight, a recording plays of Flora’s poem about giving in to...
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