Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c80.66

v2.c80.66

fairly long chapters to it, but, as we shall see later on, the function he assigns to *rasa* is more or less extraneous. On the other hand, what he appears to consider as important in poetry is the *alaṃkāra* or poetic figure, to which he devotes ten chapters which form indeed the bulk of his work. His work itself is named *Kāvyālaṃkāra* apparently after the works of Bhāmaha and Udbhaṭa, and is so designated, as his commentator Nami-sādhu admits (on i 2), from the undoubted emphasis laid on *kāvyālaṃkāras* or poetic figures as elements of poetry.