Anandavardhana - 9th century Author From Kashmir

Anandavardhana is a formulator of the theory of dhvani (suggestion) in the Sanskrit poetics/literary theory/aesthetic theory. Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana is one of the most celebrated works in Sanskrit poetics. He elaborately enumerates the theory of dhvani, a technical term conveying ‘suggestion’, which according to him is the ‘soul of poetry’. Anandavardhana lived in the second half of the

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