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a) The handbooks on Indian Literature: Winternitz, Keith and Dasgupta + De do not fail to instruct us concerning the age and character of this remarkable poem. The author, Bhaṭṭi used the well known story of the Rāmāyaṇa (Rāvaṇa-vadha, i.e. Killing of Rāvaṇa) in order to demonstrate with his verses...

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Zusammenfassung:a) The handbooks on Indian Literature: Winternitz, Keith and Dasgupta + De do not fail to instruct us concerning the age and character of this remarkable poem. The author, Bhaṭṭi used the well known story of the Rāmāyaṇa (Rāvaṇa-vadha, i.e. Killing of Rāvaṇa) in order to demonstrate with his verses the difficulties of grammar and the possibilities of literary embellishment (alaṅkāra). In taking this familiar theme he made it definitely less difficuIt for his pupils — readers are here not so much the category concerned — to learn the whole subject by heart, as the thread was already known to