Back to the Future: Appayya Dīkṣita's Kuvalayānanda and the Rewriting of Sanskrit Poetics

Adaptive Reuse : Aspects of Creativity in South Asian Cultural History

“…The peculiarity of alaṃkā-raśāstra as a knowledge system and the issue of novelty in its historical development are also dealt with in Tubb and Bronner 2008, but with a specific focus on the authors of the 16 th and 17 th centuries, the self-consciously navya ("new") school (in this regard, see also Bronner 2002 and. 13 Although they quote earlier authors by name, the first two extant works of alaṃkāra-śāstra, Bhāmaha's Kāvyālaṃkāra and Daṇḍin's Kāvyalakṣaṇa (or Kāvyādarśa), both date to the 7 th century (with Bhāmaha prior to Daṇḍin, as has been convincingly argued in Bronner 2012).…”

“…47 46 For instance, consider the famous works of Bhānudatta (15 th century), recently translated in Pollock 2009 for the Clay Sanskrit Library. Otherwise, consider the new school of alaṃkāraśāstra as described in Bronner 2002 and, in which self-conscious innovation comes back in fashion. 47 This politically flavored conclusion might seem out of place at the end of a discussion Appendix: Four translations of Abhinavagupta's intermezzo Gnoli (1968: 51-52): "Why repeat truths disclosed already in the thought of our predecessor [sic] and thus behave as no one has behaved before?…”