List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction, Maria Heim (Amherst College, USA), Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster University, USA) and Roy Tzohar (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 1. Grief, Tranquillity, and Santa Rasa in Ravisena's Padmapurana , Gregory Clines (Trinity University, USA) 2. Emotions in Visistadvaita Vedanta, Elisa Freschi (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) 3. Joy as Medicine? Yogavasistha and Descartes on the Affective Sources of Disease, Ana Laura Funes Maderay (Eastern Connecticut State University, USA) 4. Some Analyses of Feeling, Maria Heim (Amherst College, USA) 5. Lament and the Work of Tears: Andromache, Sita and Yasodhara, Steven P. Hopkins (Swarthmore College, USA) 6. The Mind in Pain: The View from Buddhist Systematic and Narrative Thought, Sonam Kachru (University of Virginia, USA) 7.

Transparent Smoke in the Pure Sky of Consciousness: Emotions and Liberation-While-Living in the Jivanmuktiviveka , James Madaio (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic) 8. Gesture and Emotion in Tamil Saiva Devotional Poetry, Anne Monius (Harvard Divinity School, USA) 9. The Emotion that is Correlated with the Comic: Notes on Human Nature through Rasa Theory, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster University, USA) 10. Is there a Cankam Way of Feeling? Body, Landscape, Voice and Affect in Old Tamil Poetry, Martha Selby (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 11. Wretched and Blessed: Emotional Praise in a Sanskrit Hymn from Kashmir, Hamsa Stainton (McGill University, Canada) 12. Savouring Rasa: Emotion, Judgement, and Phenomenal Content, Sthaneshwar Timalsina (San Diego State University, USA) 13. How Does it Feel to be on Your Own: Solitude ( viveka ) in Asvaghosa's Saundarananda, Roy Tzohar (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Bibliography Index.