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According to Dr. Raghavan, Logic and Grammar formed part of the Alamkärasastra in the pre-Bhamaha times". Dr. G. T. Deshpande advances the theory that Bhamaha devoted, for the first time, a section each to Logic of Poetry and Grammar of Poetry with a view to raising the status of Poetics and bringing it on par with the Science of Logic and of Grammar18. In view of the fact that the Natyaśāstra deals with grammar and that Bhamaha himself refers to the view of some Alamkarikas who regarded 'Sausabdya' as the real embellishment of expression or speech and that Bhamaha's Section on Sabda-buddhi is nothing but a treatment of Sausabdya (possibly with greater emphasis on Vyanjanacaruta) one feels inclined to agree with Dr. Raghavan's view that Grammar formed part of Poetics in pre-Bhamaha times.
17. Vide Dr. Raghavan Sṛngaraprakāśa, Vol. I: Part II, pp. 387-89. or Madras, 1963 edn. p. 257. Dr. Raghavan classifies 'Sauśabdya' as a Sabdalamkara along with Anupräsa and Yamaka. Instead of regarding it as an Alamkara like Anuprāsa and Yamaka, it would be more correct to take it as an embellishment of the whole poem or composition.
18. Dr. G. T. Deshpande : Bharatiya Sahitya Sastra (in Marathi) pp. 71-80,
