Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c81.s1.16

v2.c81.s1.16

⁷ Bhāmaha does not use the terms *mārga* or *rīti* but distinguishes between the *vaidarbha* and the *gauḍa kāvya* as two types of poetry obtaining in two different places. Bāṇa has already told us that people of different places liked different poetic devices (*Harṣa-carita* I *śl.* 7), with which statement Daṇḍin's remarks regarding the partiality of the Gauḍas to certain tricks and excellences agree. As Vāmana distinctly says, the *rītis*, which took their names from localities, were probably analysed empirically from the styles which prevailed in these localities. With regard to *guṇas*, Bhāmaha mentions them independently of the *rīti*. They are *mādhurya* and *prasāda* marked by the absence of compounds, and *ojas* by their presence. They would thus correspond to the *rītis* of Rudraṭa. Bharata mentions ten *guṇas* only as essential to a good *kāvya*, and not in relation to *rīti*.