Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c85.10

v2.c85.10

The first and foremost writer of this group is Mammaṭa, whose *Kāvya-prakāśa* must have helped a great deal, judging from its popularity and influence, in finally establishing the authority of the Kashmirian school of Ānandavardhana. This work, combining as it does the merit of fulness with that of conciseness, not only summmed up previous speculations in Poetics in the succinct form of a text-book; but it became in its turn the starting point of endless text-books and exegesis.