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Dandin
Dandin was a Sanskrit writer of South India, probably active around 700, who is associated with the Pallava court at Kanchipuram. He wrote the Kavyadarsha, 'Mirror of Poetry', one of the most influential works of Sanskrit poetics, later adapted in Tamil, Kannada, Sinhala and Tibetan, and the prose romance Dashakumaracharita, 'The Adventures of the Ten Princes'.
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