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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
The mahākāvya Rāvanavadha by Bhaṭṭi, known as the Bhaṭṭikāvya, differs from the other mahākāvyas by its ‘flowers’ embroidered on the underlying theme of the Rāmāyana: the main purpose of the poem is to illustrate examples from Sanskrit grammar, and halfway through it the poet/grammarian, now becoming a poet/
, devotes some sargas to a systematic disquisition
on poetics: 
(anuprāsa and yamaka), 
(circa 40 of them), and some guṇa and rasa (mādhurya and bhāvikatva).
page 358 note 1 In order to make amends to Professor Kane, to whom all Indologists owe so much in general, and to whose HSP with its paragraph on the Viṡṇu-dharmottara-Purāṇa this study in particular is indebted, I propose to add a 27th argument to his a-z list pleading for D's priority to Bh. In BhK x. 63, alankāra Nidarśana, Bhaṭṭi uses iva. Bh. III. 33 in this connexion vetoes yathā, iva, and -vat in this figure; D does not mention this point. I am inclined to consider a vetoing authority as the younger of the two, and the poet Bhaṭṭi who used it freely and the ignoring authority as the older.