Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c79.101

v2.c79.101

⁵⁶ By the time of Daṇḍin, for instance, a large number of poetic figures appears to have been recognised, and he does not find any necessity of 'reporting' them or mentioning them successively in groups as Bhāmaha does; but he arranges them in his own way, taking the *arthālaṃkāras* first and the *śabdālaṃkāras* next, in two separate chapters. Udbhaṭa, a follower of Bhāmaha, deals with the first three groups of Bhāmaha in the first three chapters of his own work (omitting, however, Bhāmaha's phrases like *anyair udāhṛtāḥ*, *aparaḥ*, *abhihitaḥ kvacit* etc. with reference to these groups), the other three chapters taking up the remaining twenty-four figures of the last group. Although he follows generally the sequence as well the definitions of Bhāmaha, he does not recite them in the manner of groups after Bhāmaha.