History of Sanskrit Poetics c5.s1.11

c5.s1.11

(e) The definitions of रूपक, आक्षेप, अप्रस्तुतप्रशंसा, समासोक्ति and पर्यायोक्त are almost identical in भामह (II. 21, 68, III. 29, 8, II. 79) and the अग्निपुराण (343. 22; 344. 15; 344. 16; 344. 18; 344. 17). भामह distinctly states that he composed his own examples and also himself settled the definitions of figures (स्वयंत्नैव निदर्शनैरियं मया प्रक्लप्ता खलु वागलंकृतिः। भामह II. 96; गिरामलङ्कारविधिः सविस्तरः स्वयं विनिश्चित्य धिया मयोदितः। III. 58). भामह, as shown below, is not earlier than 700 A. D.