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Bhamaha, author of Kavyankara is considered as founder of Alankara School of Sanskrit poetics. His views exspecially about Alankaras are often quoted by almost all later writers on poetics. The date of Bhamaha like that of several Alankaras has been the subject of long discussion among scholars. The main reason for this is that we do not have any direct clue about the personal history of Bhamaha from any source. At the same time there are several parallel passages in the works of Bhamaha and Dandin. This is leads to various opinions regarding the relative possion of these two earlier poeticious. Bhamaha is the first poetician to formulate the different topics of poetics in a well defined outline. Kavyalankara is divided in to six chapters called paricchedas. The first chapter deals with the subjects on the purpose, sources, definition and divisions of poetry. Some of the poetic defects are also dealt with. The second and third chapters treat Alankaras including Gunas. In his view the most important element of poetry is Alankara or poetic figure. Bhamaha recognizes Vakrokthi, which he practically identify with Athisayokthi as the principle underlying all figures of speech. Though he does not define Vakrokthi the term is used to denote poetic expression which entirely differs from common speech.