Foundations of Indian Psychology, Volume 2

Chapter 1

 

1 The categories of rasa (‘aesthetic experience’ and ‘chemical or substance’) and ānanda (‘joy’ of art, experience and life), for example.

2 In fact, plays such as Prabodhacandrodaya and Jīvanāndanam had actually been composed, one of them as late as the eighteenth century, to dramatize the whole event of falling ill and recovering, ending with the joy or bliss (ānanda) that accompanies good health resulting from the cultivation of moral values.

3 Suśrutasaṃhitā, 1.12.

4 It is said that Caraka, an Afghan resident of Gandhara, the kingdom ruled by Nagnajit, was a contemporary of the great Persian King Daryus (Darius) in the 6^th century BC, and a teacher at the University of Taxila.

5 In the first chapter of the fourth division of ...