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294 TEXTS ON POETICS AND DRAMATURGY Bharata's Natyasastra (500 A.D.) is the earliest available work on poetics and dramaturgy. 13 Bharata compiled his work with a view to instructing the dramatist, the stage manager, and the actors with regard to the ways and means of producing the drama, giving them the necessary constituents of the drama and the manner and material of their presentation. Bharata himself refers to the dramaturgic tradition set by Brahma in the very first verse. This tradition is clear from Abhinava Bharati where the word 'Matatraya' (three views) is 14 used. About Natya sastra contains the full exposition of the unique Rasa theory, of dramaturgy, and of four figures of speech and the gunas and the dosas of the Kavya. About 600 A.D. the numerous figures had been defined and rules had been laid down for the guidance of poets by the various rhetoricians. this time works dealing with poetics were composed such as those of Bhamaha (Kavyalankara) and Dandin (Kavyadarsa). Bhamaha, Dandin and their successors like Vamana, Kuntaka, Udbhata, Rudrata and others have discussed the various elements constituting Sahitya, its function or purpose, expression of poetic genius, characteristics of Kavya and drama, literary style (Riti), literary embellishments (Alankara), sentiments (Rasa) and other things.