Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c81.s1.48

v2.c81.s1.48

19 Instead of having adhyāyas first and adhikaraṇas thereunder, Vāmana reverses the order of older sūtra-writers and divides his work into five adhikaraṇas, each of which consists of two adhyāyas (excepting the first and the fourth which contain three each), the whole work thus having five adhikaraṇas and twelve adhyāyas. The arrangement of these adhikaraṇas is as follows. I. śarīra : dealing with the object of poetry, persons qualified to receive instructions in being the first writer on Poetics, who, before the Dhvanikāra and Ānandavardhana, gave us a well thought-out and carefully outlined scheme of Poetics, no longer naive or tentative, which, in spite of its theoretic defects, is in some respects unique and valuable.