The Kavyasangraha is an anthology of chiefly minor Sanskrit poems belonging to variety of genres, such as lyrical poems of love, sandesa-kavya, hymns, devotional poems, didactic poems, philosophical poems, etc. The anthology comprises a representative collection of such poems of each genre. One therefore finds in it Govardhana's Aryasaptasati, Sankaracarya's Anandalahari, Atmabodha and Gangastaka, Srirupagosvamin's Uddhava-sandesa, Bhartrhari's three centuries etc. It presents a colourful spectrum of Sanskrit literature so as to include the srutabodha an easy manual of prosody ascribed to Kalidasa, Dharmadasa's Vidagdha-mukhamandana, a book of intelligent riddles, two treatises on poetics, Jayadeva's Ratimanjari and Bhanudatta's Rasamanjari.

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