The Sahitya Darpana or` Mirror of Composition` is a renowned Sanskrit work on
poetics by Visvanatha of early fourteenth century. It is divided into ten
sections. The first section deals with the nature and definition of poetry. The
second treats of various powers of a word. The third treats of sentiments. The
fourth treats of the divisions of poetry. The present work is an english
translation of the sanskrit original first published in 1875 by J.r. Ballantyne
who commenced the translation but could go only as far as one quarter of the
work and Paramada Dasa Mitra, completed the rest of it.