Some Aspects of Indo-Iranian Literary and Cultural ...
Vasudev Gopal Paranjpe
Bhamaha's. Poetics. — K. Krishnamoorthy Indian ideas about aesthetics and literary criticism must have been current in some form by about the beginning of the Christian era alongside of the philosophical sutras, because we find references to aesthetic concepts like Rasa, Guna and Alamkara in Patanjali's Mahabhasya and Rudradaman's Girnar Inscription dated 151 A.D. Even the first literary epic, the Ramayana is already conversant with what might be regarded as germs of poetics.