shoka
शोक śokaGrief; the emotion that, in the Ramayana's account of its own origin, poured out of Valmiki as the first shloka, the pun shoka-into-shloka marking the birth of poetry.
Where this term appears
- The First Poem Treatise
Shoka into shloka The verse Valmiki spoke is preserved, and the tradition treats it with the reverence due to a first thing.
- Rasa: emotion, beauty, and the arts as a spiritual science Philosophy
Love ( rati ) becomes the erotic, shringara . Grief ( shoka ) becomes the compassionate, karuna .