User:Sengai Podhuvan/Manifest Emotions



Tolkappiyam in its part 3 speaks about the life-style and literature of the Tamils. The author of the work approaches in social entity. According to him the public emotions are eight-folded emerging from 32 source-emotions. The personal emotions manifest in the part of an lady in mutual love develop by six stages. Among the ten kinds of developments of emotions spoken in Sanskrit, he omitted four which are not reciprocal. After discussing feminine-emotions, he speaks about some common-emotions relevant to personal and public.
 * Verse-number is given within brackets or separately.

8 fold basic emotions

 * The 32 source-emotions categorized into sixteen-fold manifest-emotions. (3-245)
 * The 16 folded may be folded in eight. (3-246)
 * laughter, grief, disgust, wonder, fear, pride, anger & joy are the eight-folds. (3-247)

Residual emotions (public) - 32
apart from the above, there are also four-fold 32 emotions.

Reciprocal feminine manifest emotions - 6
Four-fold clandestine love-emotions of the Tamils manifest in six phases. The heroine in the premarital course on seeing the hero for the first time manifests her emotion one by one as follows:
 * Like-wise emotions are there in the mutuality of union in clandestine love course. (3-263)
 * Heroine's heart become disconsolate in extreme love (3-264)

clandestine love, distressed state of mind

 * Extreme love manifests the followings (3-265)
 * During the clandestine union course of lovers, the hero tries to have her union, that some-tines ends in failure. In this context heroine manifest these kind of emotions. (3-266)

clandestine love, unstressed state of mind

 * Heroine's extreme love manifests the followings in her unstressed state of mind (3-267)

wedded life

 * Some more 10 emotions manifest thereat in wedded course of life (3-267)

traits of compatibility
The hero and heroine united in love mark a harmony and compatibility by manifesting their position and emotions in the followings. (3-269)

negatives that mar conjugal harmony
Undesirable traits between the hero and the heroine are the followings. (3-270)


 * Only those having the capacity studying eyes and ears of the manifestation can understand the emotions. (3-271)