History of Sanskrit Poetics c6.28.7

c6.28.7

It contains a full exposition of the rasa theory, of dramaturgy and of four figures of speech and gunas. कालिदास is fond of अनुप्रास and employs यमक in रघुवंश IX. Bhāravi (who is mentioned in the Aihole Inscription) cannot be placed later than about 580-590 A.D. and in the 15th sarga of Kirātārjunīya exemplifies such चित्रबन्धs as गोमूत्रिका (verse 12), सर्वतोभद्र (25), एकाक्षर (verse 14 in which the only consonant that occurs is न्), different kinds of यमकs (verses 35, 37, 52), a verse with three applications (45).