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Kamiraya of the lunar race* It consists of 128 stanzas ^nc* IS divided into three chapters.
King Bhoja of Dhar flourished at the end of the tenth century A. D. His Sarasvati-Kanthalharana is a long ti"^atise on poetics. It has five chapters and deals with the faults and merits of poetry, with the figures of speech and with trie theory of emotions. It has been a landmark in S^i^s^rjt literary history, as it quotes many earlier authors, so tti^t it is more an anthology than a rhetorical treatise. The style is everywhere very graceful and the treatment very instructive.
Mammata, the son of Jayyata, was a brahmin of Tradition makes him the brother of Kaiyata, the grammarian and Uvvata, the Vedic interpreter. He is referred to by Madhava in his Sarvadarsana-sangraha (composed about *335 A. D.). He succeeded Bhoja of Dhar in the field of poetic work. The earliest commentary on Mammata by Manikyacfoandra is dated 1159 A. D, His Kavyaprakasa must therefore tiave been written about the latter half of the eleventh century. His father Jayyata was the joint author with Vamana of the Kasikavritti. The times of Mammata were marked by a general outburst of learning and literature in Kashmir. He studied his rhetoric under Ruyyaka. His work has been popular and always the standard authority on the subject. The style is generally lucid and clear, but at times gives rise to contradictory interpretations. The language is strictly argumentative and verbosity is not to Mammata's taste.
Kshemendra's Auchitya-vichara-charcha is a work on rhetorical style. His enunciations of canons are regularly followed by discussions. His quotations are at times gleamedstematic order. Though the f;