Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c84.19

v2.c84.19

Kuntala, author of the *Vakrokti-jīvita*, on the other hand, had no direct intention of attacking or disproving the *dhvani*-theory. He appears to have accepted the fact of a suggested sense in poetry, but, following the tradition of Bhāmaha's *vakrokti*, he develops a system of *vakrokti* of his own, in some aspects of which he includes all ideas of *dhvani* and *rasa*. Nearly the whole of his long lost work has been recently recovered, and a part of it (chs. i and ii) has been published by the present writer⁹; it is now possible, therefore, to depend no longer on the references to Kuntala in later literature for an account of his views, but gather it independently from his own statements¹⁰.