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already known to us as the author of several of the best Kavyas

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one of the greatest in the Occident since Edward Gibbons

when pointed out to the outsider

Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana Binding:Hardbound already known to us asAnandavardhana, the premier poet, critic and philosopher of Kashmir (9th century A. D.) is the doyen of Indian aestheticians. His magnum opus is the Dhvanyaloka or Light of Poetic Suggestion which combines the most perceptive explanation of rasa, or poetic essence vis _ vis other concepts, with a most searching and illumina ting analysis of best examples drawn from all genres of Sanskrit literature. The present critical edition endea vours to give as