Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c81.s1.85

v2.c81.s1.85

There is no doubt that like the *rasa*- and the *alaṃkāra*-systems, it left its impress on later theories, but it never found a serious champion after Vāmana among latter-day writers, and its theories never found unqualified acceptance. Its general doctrine of *rīti* began to be discredited and severely criticised from Ānandavardhana’s time as too crude an explanation of the nature of poetry; and Mammaṭa, the foremost authority of the latest school, ingeniously combats and sets aside the leading views of Vāmana.