Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c35.2

v1.c35.2

¹ He appropriates, for instance, long passages, without acknowledgment, from Rājaśekhara, Abhinavagupta, the Vakrôktijivita-kāra, Mammaṭa and others. The passage in the commentary from p. 57 to p. 66 is copied almost *verbatim* from Abhinava on Bharata ch vi, with only a general acknowledgment at conclusion *iti śrīmān abhinavaguptâcāryaḥ, etan matam evâsmābhir upajīvitam veditavyam* (p. 66). In the *vrtti*, again, at p. 83, the remarks on the *sthāyi-bhāva* (pp. 83-84) are copied from the same source. His extensive appropriation from Rājaśekhara has been already alluded to see p. 125f above. At p. 316 he calls himself a follower of Bharata's views (*bharata-matânusārī*). His dependence on earlier works is so close as to amount at times to almost slavish imitation or plagiarism.