Preface -- Introduction -- (I) The Problem -- (a) Poetic as Aesthetic Psychology -- (b) Poetic as Rhetoric -- (c) The Notion of Alamkāra -- (II) History of the Search for System -- (a) Arthaśabda -- (b) The Criteria of Differentiation -- (c) An Alternative System: The Stylistic Argument -- (d) Rudrata: The First Systematist -- (i) Simile -- (ii) Hyperbole -- (iii) Pun: śleṣa -- (iv) Svabhāvokti -- (e) Poetic as an Intellectual Discipline -- (III) The System of Figures -- (a) The Question of Infinitude -- (b) The System -- (IV) The Adequacy of the Ālamkārika Poetic -- (a) Kāvya -- (b) Nāṭya -- (c) The Religious Lyric -- (V) Conclusion -- (VI) Scope of the Glossary -- (VII) Method of the Glossary -- Postscript -- A Glossary of Indian Figures of Speech -- Numbers and Abbreviations Used -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of Figures.