Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c84.63

v2.c84.63

It is well known that this apocryphal purāṇa is ambitiously cyclopaedic. There is hardly any doubt, however, that the alaṃkāra-portion of this work, as we have already remarked, is chiefly a compilation, in a somewhat eclectic fashion, by a writer who was himself no theorist but who probably wanted to collect together and present a workable epitome, conforming in essentials to the teachings of no particular orthodox school, but gathering its material from all sources. This will be borne out not only by its independent, if somewhat loosely joined and uncritical, treatment, but also from the presence of verses culled from various old writers.