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Name: chauhan pragati sureshbhai Subject:IKS Class assignment Vakrokti Theory Introduction Kuntaka was a great Sanskrit literary theorist and the originator of the Vakrokti school of poetics . He lived after Anandavardhana (9th century) and before Abhinavagupta (10th century), during the peak period of Indian poetics. His contemporaries were Dhananjaya and Rajashekhara . Kuntaka’s major work is Vakrokti-Jivita , where he explained his unique theory of poetry. According to Ganesh Devy , Vakrokti is similar to Western Formalism and New Criticism , because it focuses on language and style as the essence of poetry. Kuntaka and Vakrokti-Jivita Kuntaka’s book Vakrokti-Jivita was discovered and published in 1922 by Sushil Kumar Dey . The manuscript is incomplete, consisting of four chapters (though some believe there was a fifth). Scholars assume that Kuntaka was from Kashmir , and he lived between 1000–1030 CE. Mahimbhatta ment...