Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c21.5

v1.c21.5

The celebrated work on Poetics known as *Dhvanyāloka* (also called *Kāvyāloka*¹ or *Sahṛdayāloka*), of which or a part of which, Ānandavardhana is reputed to be the author, may be distinguished into two parts, viz. (1) the *Kārikā*, consisting of verses and treating of *dhvani*, and (2) the *Vṛtti*, or exposition, generally in prose with illustrative verses, of the above *Kārikā*. Now the question has been raised whether the *Kārikā* and the *Vṛtti* are of the same authorship or should be attributed to different authors.