Subodhālaṅkāra

The Subodhālaṅkāra, Saṅgharakkhita's work on poetics — the art of poetry under five heads: faults in composition, how to avoid them, verbal ornamentation, rhetorical figures, and elegance of sound. 370 verses; this volume's last chapter is Rasabhāvāvabodho nāma pañcamo paricchedo.

In the second half of the 1100s CE the elder Saṅgharakkhita, writing in Ceylon, produced a series of works on grammar, prosody and rhetoric. He calls himself a pupil of Moggallāna, whom he names Sīlathera — which ties this group of books directly to the second grammatical school.

His stated reason for writing is the same as for his metrics: the earlier works, by Rāmasamma and others, are not suitable for Māgadhī — that is, for Pali. The models are nonetheless Sanskrit, and the technical vocabulary is borrowed and adapted from them. The Pali catalogue gives the work to him without qualification.