Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c81.s1.12

v2.c81.s1.12

These speculations, of course, constitute the common stock-in-trade of Poetics, and find themselves repeated in a more or less similar form in most writers irrespective of the school or tradition to which they belong. Thus Vāmana also gives us preliminary chapters on the divisions of poetry (*kāvya-viśeṣa*), on the auxiliary aids or sources of poetry (*kāvyāṅga*), on the persons entitled to study the science (*adhikāri-nirūpaṇa*). Although belonging to a different school, Rudraṭa in the same way devotes two chapters (i and xvi) to these general topics of Poetics.