# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kuntaka
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:32:32.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kuntaka"
name: "Kuntaka"
slug: "kuntaka"
description: "Kuntaka was a Sanskrit poetician and literary theorist of who is remembered for his work Vakroktijīvitam in which he postulates the Vakrokti Siddhānta or theory of Oblique Expression, which he considers as the hallmark of all creative literature. He lived roughly 950–1050, between Anandavardhana in the ninth century and Abhinavagupta in the tenth century and was a rough contemporary of Dhananjaya and Rajasekhara."
tagline: "Sanskrit poetician and literary theorist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           38.71
  momentum:             0.9375
  historical:           4.873722666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%81%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%95"
    title: "ਕੁੰਤਕ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuntaka"
    title: "Kuntaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%95"
    title: "कुंतक"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81"
    title: "కుంతకుడు"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%8F%D9%86%D8%AA%DA%A9"
    title: "کُنتک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%83"
    title: "कुन्तकः"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6445068"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump