Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c51.11

v1.c51.11

Appayya is notable in Sanskrit Poetics for his three works, viz. the *Kuvalayānanda*, the *Citra-mīmāṃsā* and the *Vṛtti-vārttika*. Of these, the last seems to have been his earliest work, after which comes the *Citra-mīmāṃsā* which is referred to in his *Kuvalayānanda*. None of these works displays much originality; and we have seen that his *Kuvalayānanda* was directly based on Jayadeva's *Candrāloka*, up to the section on the figure *hetu*¹. To the "one hundred" alaṃkāras of Jayadeva, Appayya, however, adds twenty-four², and this perhaps constitutes the largest number of such figures mentioned in any Alaṃkāra work, and forms the climax in the process of multiplying the poetic fignres with endless minute differentiation. The *Citra-mīmāṃsā* is a more independent work; but it was probably left incomplete. In most of the MSS¹, as well as in the printed texts², it goes up to the *atiśayôkti-prakaraṇa* and breaks off with the curious verse