(see the Bibliography, p. xiii), all accessible Sanskrit texts dealing with rhetoric and the drama have been carefully searched for passages treating the same topics or defining the same terms as those that appear in the Daśarūpa, and parallel passages in other Sanskrit works have been included wherever possible. The references are preceded in every case by the special symbol ‖, the parallel bars being intended to suggest the parallel passages. The order in which the various works are enumerated is in the main chronological, although the date of composition is in many cases merely a matter of conjecture. The Sāhityadarpaṇa, however, though dating from the middle of the fifteenth century, has for reasons of convenience been quoted uniformly in the second place, directly after the Bhāratīyanāṭyaśāstra. Detailed information regarding the editions to which the citations refer will be found on pages xiv–xvii, in the Conspectus of Editions of Texts.
