Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s2.141

c8.s2.141

¹ In his *Nāṭaka-candrikā* (ed. Rasavihari Samkhya-tirtha, Kashim-bazar 1907), however, Rūpa Gosvāmin does not speak favourably of Viśvanātha's work. At the outset of this work, he states that in composing it he consulted the *Bharata-śāstra* and the *Rasa-sudhākara*, and generally rejected the treatment of the *Sāhitya-darpaṇa* as being opposed to Bharata's views. It must, however, be noted that Rūpa has, both in his *Bhakti-rasāmṛta* and *Ujjvala nīlamaṇi*, departed very materially from Bharata, and sometimes quotes Bharata merely to criticise him.