Dear colleagues,only a final short note (along with my grateful thanks for the interesting suggestions, including those sent to me off-list by Roland Steiner and Christophe Vielle):
- I apologize to Ashok and Jesse for partly misrepresenting their comments.
- Nagaraj Paturi’s is precisely an apt statement of that communis opinio about the meaning of camatkāra I don’t agree on. But I am afraid that the Indology list (indeed a wonderful resource!) is not the right place to delve into complex philological investigations…
Warmly,
Raffaele
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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.