The Rasagangadhara of Panditaraja is admittedly most difficult and most scholarly and authoritative text on Sanskrit Poetics. While it has been the happy hunting ground of the traditional Sanskrit Pandit, it has also been the despair of many a modern student of Sanskrit trained on Western lines. Jagannatha was not only a great poet but also a stalwart dialectician who started fresh controversies while attempting to silence earlier ones. In the present study, the ...