Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c85.79

v2.c85.79

²⁷ This work, drawing largely upon Mammaṭa and the younger Vāgbhaṭa (besides older writers) is declared to have been based upon the *kārikās* of one *alaṃkāra-vidyā-sūtra-kāra bhagavān Śauddhodani* (see Vol. I, pp. 260f); but it does not present any theory nor set up any new system. There are, however, certain opinions which are peculiar to the work, the chief of which is that it sets up *rasa* as the essence of poetry. The work is divided