Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c44.26

v1.c44.26

He also wrote a commentary called *Kāvyaprakāśa-darpaṇa* on Mammaṭa's work; but this was probably composed after he had written his larger independent work on Poetics; for in it he himself refers, while commenting on *lakṣaṇā* (ch. ii), to the latter work¹. In the *Sāhitya-darpaṇa* itself he draws very considerably upon Mammaṭa; and although at the beginning of this work, he quotes and criticises at some length Mammaṭa's definition of poetry, he distinctly reproves all irreverent criticism of this venerable writer, who is declared to be his own *upajīvya* (ad ii 14 p. 57). In this commentary Viśvanātha refers to a *Narasimha-vijaya-kāvya* by himself.