Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c80.64

v2.c80.64

Although influenced considerably by the *rasa*-doctrine, Rudraṭa belongs properly to the Alaṃkāra school. He recognises the *rasa* and devotes two degrees, of compound words. Each of these is suited, though not invariably, to a particular *rasa*. But he thinks that the *guṇas* are not of the nature of *saṃghaṭanā*, nor are they dependent upon *saṃghaṭanā*, but that the appropriateness of the *saṃghaṭanā* is determined by the *rasa* and by the speaker and the subject (pp. 133-5). See Jacobi in *ZDMG*. lvi, 1902, p. 779, fn 6.