Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c21.7
Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c21.7
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v1.c21.7
Abhinavagupta, who is followed in this respect by several later writers on Poetics, carefully distinguishes between the Kārikākāra and the Vṛttikāra, by directly opposing them, and also by using the term *vṛtti-grantha* in contradistinction to the *kārikā*². In three of these passages (pp. 123, 130-1 ; ch.