Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c87.22

v2.c87.22

A large part of this treatment is reproduced in Keśava's *Alaṃkāra-śekhara*, as well as in Deveśvara's *Kavi-kalpalatā*, the latter work being directly modelled on the *Kāvya-kalpalatā* with considerable plagiarism of passages in extenso. These works, therefore, do not require any separate notice; and although Keśava's text deals, besides this, with the ordinary topics of Poetics, set forth as the views of his master Śaudhodani, but in substance and form following the views of Mammaṭa, Hemacandra and the Vāgbhaṭas, it thus possesses hardly any claim to originality either in theory or in treatment. Most of the works of Jaina authors, even including those of Hemacandra and the Vāgbhaṭas, are written apparently from the practical standpoint of composing a suitable text-book, and they always, in their discussion of general principles, incorporate hints on matters helpful for the practical working out of poetry ¹³.