Bharata’s Natya Shastra formulates rasa in the context of dramatic performance and aesthetic experience, A. Abhijnana Shakuntalam is a play; Manu Smriti concerns normative social law and Charaka Samhita medicine. They do not supply the foundational formulation sought here.
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