The Rashtrakutas and their Times c23.s2.13

c23.s2.13

It was during our period that the literature on poetics flourished luxuriantly in the beautiful valley of Kashmir. The rugged Deccan had, however, hardly any contribution to make to that department. The *Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa* of Bhoja and the *Kāvyānuśāsana* of Hemachandra belong to a later period and are besides mere compilations. The *Kavirājamārga* of Amoghavarsha shows that works of poetics were studied in the Deccan during our period, for the work is mainly based on the *Kāvyādarśa* of Daṇḍin;³² but no Deccanese writer came forward with any distinctive contribution of his own to that science.