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'''Hāsya''' ([[Sanskrit]]: हास्य) is a Sanskrit word<ref>{{cite web | title =Definition of hāsya|work= Sanskritdictionary| url = http://sanskritdictionary.com/h%C4%81sya/281184/1 | accessdate = 2014-08-28 }}</ref> for one of the nine [[Rasa (aesthetics)|rasas]] or [[Bhava (mood)|bhava]] (mood) of [[Indian aesthetics]], usually translated as [[humour]] or [[comedy]].<ref name="Marchand2006">{{cite book|author=Peter Marchand|title=The Yoga of the Nine Emotions: The Tantric Practice of Rasa Sadhana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qy3EJro29MQC&pg=PA177|date=2006|publisher=Inner Traditions / Bear & Co|isbn=978-1-59477-094-4|pages=177–}}</ref><ref name="Prasad1994"/> The colour associated with hasya is white and deity, ''Pramatha'',<ref name="Schwartz2004">{{cite book|author=Susan L. Schwartz|title=Rasa: Performing the Divine in India|url=https://archive.org/details/rasa00susa|url-access=registration|date=2004|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-13145-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/rasa00susa/page/15 15]–}}</ref> and leads to exultation of the mind.<ref name="Gupta2013">{{cite book|author=Sanjukta Gupta|title=Advaita Vedanta and Vaisnavism: The Philosophy of Madhusudana Sarasvati|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4AFxluCHsoAC&pg=PA140|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-15774-7|pages=140–}}</ref><br />
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Hāsya often arises out of [[Sringara]] as mentioned in ''[[Natya Shastra]]'', the classical treatise on the performing arts of [[Bharata Muni]], theatrologist and musicologist.<ref>{{cite book |last = Ghosh |first = Manomohan |title = Natyasastra |year = 2002 |publisher = Chowkhamba sanskrit series office |isbn =81-7080-076-5}}</ref> Rasa means "flavour", and the theory of rasa is the primary concept behind classical [[Indian art]]s, including [[theatre in India|theatre]],<ref name="TrivediBartholomeusz2005">{{cite book|author1=Poonam Trivedi|author2=Dennis Bartholomeusz|title=India's Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation, and Performance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5lKp1XE2OQC&pg=PA211|year=2005|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-881-8|pages=211–}}</ref> [[music]], [[dance]], [[poetry]], and even [[sculpture]].<ref name="Prasad1994">{{cite book|author=Gupteshwar Prasad|title=I.A. Richards and Indian Theory of Rasa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hmy5cnSbsWYC&pg=PA100|year=1994|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-85431-37-6|pages=100}}</ref><ref name="Sharma2007">{{cite book|author=Manorma Sharma|title=Music Aesthetics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wjJ6ASaqFGAC&pg=PA96|date=2007|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-313-0032-9|pages=96–}}</ref> <br><br><br />
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