Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c84.24

v2.c84.24

Kuntala, therefore, holds that *sālaṃkṛta śabda* and *artha* or embellished word and sense alone constitute poetry, and this embellishment consists of vakrokti. The so-called embellishments, which go by the name of poetic figures (*alaṃkāras*) in orthodox Poetics, are merely aspects of this vakrokti, and can be properly included in its comprehensive scope. So can also the ideas of *dhvani* and *rasa*. This vakrokti being the only possible *alaṃkāra* and being essential