[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s6.t3.81 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t3.81 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t3.81 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s6.t3.81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.81) ² H. Lüders, Bruchstücke der Kalpanāmaṇḍitikā des Kumāralāta (Kön. Preuss. Turfan-Expeditionen, Kleinere Sanskrit-Texte II), Leipzig 1926. Both Kalpanāmaṇḍitikā and Kalpanālaṃkṛtikā appear as titles in the colophons. Both adjectives mean the same, and it is probable that Dṛṣṭānta-paṅktiḥ followed after them, so that the meaning of the title is: “A Series of Examples adorned by Poetic Invention.” See \*Lüders\*, l.c., pp. 19, 26, and S. \*Lévi\* in JA, t. 201, 1927, p. 95 ff. The Chinese did not understand the somewhat extraordinary title, and (owing to the word alaṃkṛtikā) made a “Sūtrālaṃkāra” out of it. \*Lüders\* (l.c.) has advanced the hypothesis “that Aśvaghoṣa did actually write a work entitled Sūtrālaṃkāra, which was not translated into Chinese, but soon got lost, and was subsequently confused with the Kalpanāmaṇḍitikā which was known by the similar sounding title Chuang-yen-lun=Alaṃkāraśāstra.” I am not convinced that this is the solution of the riddle. S. \*Lévi\* (l.c., p. 126 ff.) tries another solution and thinks it still possible that Aśvaghoṣa may be the author of the work. - [Previous: v2.c19.s6.t3.80](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.80) - [Next: v2.c19.s6.t3.82](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.82) - [Up: v2.c19.s6.t3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t3.81) · Pramāṇa