> I am convinced that the meaning of camatkāra in all Utpaladeva-Abhinavagupta-Kṣemarāja’s works has nothing (or at least very little) to do with ‘wonder’.

---- Utpaladeva-Abhinavagupta-Kṣemarāja view of chamatkaara is rooted in pratyabhijnaa and its application /extension to Rasa as abhivyakti is obviously a sudden re-cognition. The suddenness and lack of its previous awareness (at a 'conscious' level ) leads to a surprise in the experiencing individual. Part of the ecstatic tingling or tingling ecstasy is characterised by this flash and surprise aspect.

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 3:02 AM, Ashok Aklujkar via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Raffaele,

I mainly wished to correct “Bhāmaha” to "Udbhaṭa”. The other error, which pertains to transliteration, is even less significant.

Best.

ashok

> On Apr 14, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Raffaele Torella <raffaele.torella@uniroma1.it> wrote:
>
> Madhav Deshpande points out that in Marathi, words related to Sanskrit camatkāra have ‘wonder’ as their central meaning (along with other interesting shades). In fact, this would have been my second question: why practically in all modern Indic languages the words related to camatkāra mean “wonder, surprise, astonishment”, while it is not so with the Trika authors who introduced this word into philosophical-aesthetic terminology. Contrary to the communis opinio, I am convinced that the meaning of camatkāra in all Utpaladeva-Abhinavagupta-Kṣemarāja’s works has nothing (or at least very little) to do with ‘wonder’.

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