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Bhattikavya

poem epic by Bhatti

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discussed in biography

In Bhatti
…grammarian, author of the influential Bhattikavya, which is a mahakavya (“great poem”), or classical epic composed of a variable number of comparatively short cantos. He is often confused with the writers Bhartrihari and Vatsabhatti.
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place in Sanskrit literature

In South Asian arts: The mahākāvya
…phenomenon, for example, is the Bhaṭṭikāvya, a poem by Bhaṭṭi (probably 6th or 7th century). It again deals with the story of Rāma and Sītā, but at the same time it illustrates in stanza after stanza, in exactly the proper sequence, the principal rules of Sanskrit grammar and poetics. Less…
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