Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c7.5

v1.c7.5

that these kārikās are abridged from the Agni-purāṇa. Somadeva in his Yaśastilaka (959-60 A. D.) refers, indeed, to a bharata-praṇīta kavyādhyāya (Peterson ii p. 45) which, considering Somadeva's date, could not have alluded to this tradition of Bharata's authorship of Mammaṭa's kārikās, but possibly, from the terms of reference, to ch. xvi of the Nāṭya-śāstra, which deals with kāvyālaṃkāras and guṇas as embellishments of the dramatic speech.