काव्यालङ्कार (आचार्य भामह - भारतीय काव्यशास्त्र एवं अलङ्कार-सिद्धान्त मूल महाग्रन्थ सटीक)

PREFACE VII.
authorship of Bhāmaha. Besides, several long quo-
tations relating to Poetics as drawn form Bhāmaha
are made in Kāmadhenu, commentary on Vāmana's
काव्यालंकारसूत्रवृत्ति, which are not found in this work so
that one can infer that there was a bigger work on
poetics by the same author. Further, Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭ-
ṭa's commentary on वृत्तरत्नाकर quotes several verses
relating to metrics as drawn from Bhāmaha, which
leads us to presume that Bhāmaha has written a
work on Prosody also. But apart from the identity
of name, there is no evidence to prove the identity
of authorship of all these works.
Bhāmahālaṅkāra consists of 6 Paricchhedas.
The 1st deals with poetry, the 2nd and 3rd with
Alaṁkāras, the 4th with Doshas, the 5th with प्रमाणs
and the 6th with the grammatical subject of शब्दशुद्धि.
The contents of the first 3 Paricchhedas fall strictly
within the province of Alaṁkāra and they are set
out in detail in the Table of Contents that follows.
So far as Doshas or literary faults are concerned
they find a place in a preliminary way in the 1st
Paricchheda where from Verse 37 to 46 Bhāmaha
deals with 6 Doshas and from Verse 47 to 53 with
4 more Doshas. But the 4th Paricchheda is the
chapter which exclusively deals with all the re-
maining Dosha. Vide our notes under I—37. The
5th Paricchheda deals with Pramāṇas (instruments
of knowledge) and other topics concerning logic