A History of Sanskrit Literature c20.s5: Poetics

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*Cf.* Sylvain Lévi, *Théâtre Indien*, pp. 1–21; Regnaud, *La Rhétorique Sanskrite*, Paris, 1884; Jacob, *Notes on Alamkara Literature*, in *Journal of the Roy. As. Soc.*, 1897, 1898. The oldest and most important work on poetics is the *Nāṭya Çāstra* of Bharata, which probably goes back to the sixth century A.D. (ed. in *Kāvyamālā*, No. 42, Bombay, 1894; ed. by Grosset, Lyons, 1897). Daṇḍin's *Kāvyādarça* (end of sixth century) contains about 650 *çlokas* (ed. with trans. by Böhtlingk, Leipsic, 1890). Vāmana's *Kāvyālaṃkāravṛitti*, probably eighth century (ed. Cappeller, Jena, 1875). *Çṛiṅgāra-tilaka*, or "Ornament of Erotics," by Rudrabhaṭa (ninth century), ed. by Pischel, Kiel, 1886 (*cf. Journal of German Or. Soc.*, 1888, p. 296 ff., 425 ff.; *Vienna Or. Journal*, ii. p. 151 ff.). Rudraṭa Çatānanda's *Kāvyālaṃkāra* (ed. in *Kāvyamālā*) belongs to the ninth century. Dhanaṃjaya's *Daçarūpa*, on the ten kinds of drama, belongs to the tenth century (ed. Hall, 1865; with comm. Nirṇaya Sāgara Press, Bombay, 1897). The *Kāvyaprakāça* by Mammaṭa and Alaṭa dates from about 1100 (ed. in the *Pandit*, 1897). The *Sāhityadarpaṇa* was composed in Eastern Bengal about 1450 A.D., by Viçvanātha Kavirāja (ed. J. Vidyāsāgara, Calcutta, 1895; trans. by Ballantyne in *Bibl. Ind.*).