Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c32.4

v1.c32.4

The *Alaṃkāra-sarvasva*, by which Ruyyaka is chiefly known, consists of two parts, viz., *sūtra* and *vṛtti*; but the question has been raised whether the authorship of the two parts should be attributed to the same writer. The Kāvyamālā edition of the text, published under the above title, admits Ruyyaka’s authorship of both the sūtra and the vṛtti, a view which is accepted by his earliest commentator Jayaratha, who refers to the author as granthakṛt with respect to both the sūtra and vṛtti portions.¹ The invocatory verse to the vṛtti in this edition reads in the second line