Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.3058

c7.3058

KUNTAKA (KUNTALA). A Sanskrit poet who flourished in the eleventh century A.D. He was a contemporary of Abhinavagupta, and a critic who maintained that the 'life' of real poetry was Vakrokti (expressing ideas in an artistically round-about way instead of in a blunt and plain manner).