Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c80.52

v2.c80.52

The only writer of later times who develops Bhāmaha’s notion of *vakrokti* is Kuntala, the author of the *Vakrokti-jīvita*; but for this exposition, it disappears from the writings of this school. Udbhaṭa, one of the earliest avowed followers of Bhāmaha, nowhere mentions it, although it is quite possible that we would have got a much more comprehensive idea of Udbhaṭa’s standpoint from his lost *Bhāmaha-vivaraṇa* or *Kāvyālaṃkāra-vivṛti*²⁴ than from his existing brief compendium of poetic figures. His *Alaṃkāra-saṃgraha*, as its name implies, consists merely of a collection of verses defining forty-one figures (including three varieties of *anuprāsa*), and we are left absolutely in the dark regarding his views on general problems.