Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s3.77

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in seven Prakāśas respectively on Kāvya-lakṣaṇa, Vākya-svarūpa, Dhvani-bheda, Śabdārthālaṃkāra, Doṣa, Guṇa and Rīti, omitting the subject-matter of the *Sāhitya-darpaṇa* iii, v and vi; to which rhetorical work it acknowledges its indebtedness in the opening verses (*sāhityānvayi darpaṇam api saṃkalitam kariṣyāmi*). It is, in fact, an unoriginal compilation of traditional definitions, most of which are derived directly from the *Sāhitya-darpaṇa*, which it closely follows; but, we are told, since the latter work is defective on account of its not being dedicated to Kṛṣṇa, the author takes pains to insert illustrative verses in glorification of the deity, and sometimes even changes old verses freely into Vaiṣṇavite words and ideas. For instance, the last two lines of the well known old verse *niḥśeṣa-cyuta-candanam* (Mammaṭa, i) are thus modified, hardly to its advantage: