Verse Text
trayastriṁśad ime ’ṣṭau ca vakṣyante sthāyinaś ca ye |
mukhya-bhāvābhidhās tv eka-catvāriṁśad amī smṛtāḥ ||250||
Translation
The forty-one chief bhāvas or emotions are these thirty-three vyabhicāri-bhāvas, the seven secondary sthāyi-bhāvas, [Note: Later Rūpa Gosvāmī explains that the seven secondary ratis are actually vyabhicāri-bhāvas. He classes them as ratis only out of deference to Bharata Muni and others.] and the one mukhya-sthāyi-bhāva of the devotee. [Note: Though a devotee may have a mixture of primary ratis in his relationship with Kṛṣṇa, one of those is dominant as the sthāyi-bhāva, and others appear only at certain times, not at the same time, as vyabhicāri-bhāvas, or secondary ratis.]
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
The eight chief bhāvas besides the thirty-three vyabhicāri-bhāvas (making a total of forty–one bhāvas) are the seven secondary ratis starting with hāsya and one of the five principle ratis starting with śānta-rati. By the word mukhya in the phrase mukhya-bhāvābhidhāḥ, the sāttvika-bhāvas are excluded.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
Aṣṭau (eight) refers to the seven secondary sthāyi-bhāvas such as hāsya and the one normal state of bhakti of the particular devotee. The word mukhya here excludes the sāttvika-bhāvas. [Note: The sāttvika-bhāvas and anubhāvas are not classed as bhāva-rūpa-bhakti, but ceṣṭā-rūpa-bhakti.]
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
He further states that the thirty-three disturbing symptoms of ecstatic love, plus eight other symptoms, all taken together equal forty-one primary symptoms of ecstatic love.