What is rasabhasa?
When rasa or bhavas are evoked inappropriately, rasabhasa or bhavabhasa (a semblance of rasa or bhava) respectively is the result.
For example, it is said that if love in the hero is not reciprocated, if the object of this love is the wife of his teacher if the emotion is depicted in a person other than the hero, or if it is depicted in an inferior person or animals, the result is sriangarabhasa and not the fully-fledged sriangara.
A manifestation of bhava under similar conditions would result in bhavabhasa.
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