Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c80.65

v2.c80.65

⁴ Such citations or association of earlier authoritative names with a particular view may be merely *pūjārtha*, which is not an unusual procedure with later commentators, as Sukthankar in *ZDMG* lxvi, 1912 discusses. Pratīhārendurāja, for instance, attributes a strange opinion to Bharata that grammatical works and the like do not deserve the name of poetry because they are not acceptable as such in the absence of the necessary *guṇas*.