What passes under the name of Alamkāraśastra in Sanskrit literature is the equivalent of the discipline called literary criticism. A large number of arciest votke of this particular department is losta fate which befell specially all branches of sanskrit learning depriving a modern student of the data which might make possible a systematic reconstruction of the history of evolution. Our knowledge of Ala kāraśāstra practically starts from Bhāmaha and Dandin. The treatment of alaṁkāras in Bharata's Natyasāstra is more allusive than comprehensive. The stages of evolution of Alamkaraśāstra have been discovered and settled with considerable clarity ard precision by previous writers on the subject. The names of H. Jacobi, Mm. P. V. Kane, Dr. S. K. De and Dr. V. Raghavana deserve specific mention in this connexion. There is small room for improvement in this line of treatment. I have therefore selected for my study and treatment of a particular author and the representative work he wrote on a branch of the subject.
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