Kavyalankara
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Kavyalankara ("The ornaments of poetry") is the name of two works in Sanskrit poetics
(see the author's articles for details on the works):
Poetics
Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory...
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- Kāvyālaṅkāra by BhamahaBhamahaBhamaha was a Sanskrit poetician believed to be contemporaneous with Daṇḍin. He is noted for writing a work called Kavyalankara . In the last verse of his work, he mentions that he was son of Rakrilagomin. Except this information nothing is known about Bhamaha.-Kavyalankara:Bhamaha's...
(circa 7th century), roughly contemporaneous with DaṇḍinDandinDandin can refer to:* Daṇḍin, 6th-7th century Sanskrit writer* The Dandin Group, a wireless internet thinktank* Dandin the Sword Carrier, a character appearing in Mariel of Redwall and The Bellmaker, two books from the fictional Redwall series by Brian Jacques.... - Kāvyālaṅkāra by RudrataRudrataRudrata was a Kashmiri poet and literary theorist, who wrote a work called the Kavyalankara in the first quarter of the ninth century. Very little is known about Rudrata...
, a Kashmirian poet of circa 9th century