[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Arts, Poetics, Architecture & Lexicography](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art) › [Poetics](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara) › [Manuals for poets and poetic conventions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.kavisiksa) › Vastava # Vastava (Vāstava) वास्तव treatise on a topic of poetics taught by Kāvya-puruṣa - **Language:** Sanskrit - **Author:** [Pulastya](https://indike.org/pramana/person/pulastya) - **Text:** lost --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.kavisiksa.vastava](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.kavisiksa.vastava) · Pramāṇa