DANDIN

flourished , late 6th and early 7th centuries, India Indian Sanskrit writer of prose romances and expounder on poetics. Scholars attribute to him with certainty only two works: the Dasakumaracarita, translated in 1927 as The Adventures of the Ten Princes, and the Kavyadarsa (Mirror of Poetry). The Dasakumaracarita relates the vicissitudes of 10 princes in their pursuit of love and royal power. The work is imbued both with realistic portrayals of human vice and with supernatural magic, including the intervention of deities in human affairs. The Kavyadarsa is a work of literary criticism defining the ideals of style and sentiment appropriate to each genre of kavya (courtly poetry).