Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c5.57

v1.c5.57

it cannot also be maintained with any cogency that the relatively developed style and treatment of even these early writers could have been evolved by themselves in the absence of earlier tentative works, the existence of which may be presumed, for instance, by the employment, by these writers, of certain technical words and formulas (e. g. *vakrókti*, *rīti*, *guṇa* etc) without a previous explanation.