Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c86.12

v2.c86.12

It is not necessary in this connexion to take up in detail the views of Mammaṭa, Vidyādhara and other writers, for it would be repeating substantially what has already been said regarding the final doctrine of *rasa*. Viśvanātha is the only important writer, among later theorists, who boldly accepts Abhinavagupta’s extreme view that the *rasa-dhvani* alone is the essence of poetry and builds up a system of Poetics on its basis⁸.