Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c87.11

v2.c87.11

⁷ e. g. while discussing the question of propriety of the contents of a composition, he cites (p. 120) from *Kumārasambhava* viii—which canto he accepts as Kālidāsa’s—and severely censures the poet’s manner of describing the amours of Hara and Pārvatī in terms of ordinary dalliance, against the authority of Ānandavardhana who defends (p. 137) it against the imputation of vulgarity.