INTRODUCTION Alankara Sangraha of Amrtanandayogin a work dealing with all the aspects of Rhetoric is now presented to the public for the first time in original Sanskrit. All the manuscript copies of this work available in different places are only fragments of the text containing a few chapters here and there, most of them containing chapters from 1 to 5 or 6 'These manuscript copies are found deposited in various manuscript libraries all over India. t is said that Alankara Sangraha with an English translation was printed at Calcutta in 1887. Late M. Krishnamachariar stated that the above Calcutta publication consisted of only the first five chapters, The ma1scripts bearing the numbers 12794 and R, 2486 of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library with the title Alankara Sangraha contain five and four chapters respectively. The five chapters of the former and the four of the latter put together make the nine chapters of the text as the first five are from 1 to 5 and the other from 6 to 9. There is a manuscript in the Madras University library containing ten chapters, but certain portions in 9th and 10th are missing in it. The Adyar library manuscripts contain eleven chapters in all but the last one is badly damaged and the matter could not be made out. A manuscript of the Goutami Library of Rajahmandry is said to contain nine. Our Ma1script bearing the number 6280 of the S. V.O. Institute contains eleven chapters. This manuscript appears to contain the matter copied from the manuscripts available at Madras A palm-leaf manuscript copy is also available in our S. V.O. Institute with the No. 6094 and it contains only the first five chapters. The manuscript copy with the No, 6280 of our S.V.O. Institute contains the following chapters.
1.History of classical sanskrit literature by M.Krishnamachariar
